It's not like learning on VIM is going to make you unable to deal with a situation. If you do find yourself up against a box that only has vi installed, you'll at least be able to go in, do simple edits, and save the file out.
Now only learning emacs would be a mistake, but I'm a bit biased;)
Hey, that's great! And if you get enough people to join your boycott... the record industry will be totally convinced that nobody is buying CD's anymore because they're all swiping them from the 'Net!
This was a very interesting article. A couple of sticking points come to mind immediately. I dunno, maybe I'm a pessimist.
- What if the guy with the DSL connection has his phone and/or electric service cut off for some reason?
- What if, aided by his newfound bandwidth, becomes hopelessly addicted to multimedia porn newsgroups and sucks up all the bandwidth?
- What if they guy moves and is a jerk and takes the Airport basestation and other equipment with him? Even though setting up the shared connection is not technically illegal, it might be a pain to press charges in such a case.
I actually like getting those in the mail lately. Now that they come in those nifty DVD hard cases I'm working my way through all my DVD's that came packaged in a cheapo cardboard case and moving them over.
Now if I could find an easy way to get that darn mailing label off the back of them.
Not only that, but are people going to stop using UPS and FedEx also? Is their some law stating that you can only send antrax via the "official" carrier (ie, USPS)?
Actually, I heard several reports that a lot of money was being funneled through the sale of honey. Apparently Afghanistan is noted for their premium honey and the terrorists use sales outlets of this honey to move money around.
So can we tack something on there to ban the sale of honey? Down with honey!
Wiretaping and the such will not help at all. Didn't we learn anything from Hogan's Heroes? All the messages they send are like "The package has been delivered" and "The crow flys south in the winter".
How can they possibly differentiate phrases like that from some sort of terrorist communication?
It's not likely that too many of them would be stupid enough to pick up the phone and say "Ok, tomorrow at 9:30am we will spread sarin gas through the NYC subway system."
(oh great, now I've triggered something and they're watching my house. I can see them across the street)
I had given PGP several chances. For one reason or another I'd get all fired up about it. I'd go an generate new keys, submit to keyservers, etc.
Then it hit me. Who can I send this to? If I encrypt something, nobody is going to know what to do with it, not even most of my tech savvy friends. Even they don't have current keys that I could get hold of, so I couldn't encrypt it for them.
I settled for signing my messages if for nothing else to spread the PGP word. That ended when I actually had someone who I respected on a mailing list tell me to stop waisting space by including all that "garbage" in every one of my messages.
Not only was it not free, it was horribly expensive. We where looking at getting it for a public (read: poor) hospital that I was doing consulting work for a couple of years back. They wanted like $400 per workstation for their "corporate desktop" edition. There was no way they could afford $60,000 for this project.
I see now the price is $179 per workstation on their website. Still pretty pricey for encryption.
From the article it appears that the inflatable part is the box. The drivers are mounted on a board that has several air bladders attached to it in case one pops during the conert. Now who would make a game of popping the speaker cases at a concert? Hmmmm?
So... if you have old, highly specialized hardware that only works on old drivers, then why do you need to update to a new kernel?
Fortunately for him, his box is behind a firewall, but IIRC there have been a couple of exploits available for early kernels. The only option on a publically accessable box is to upgrade the kernel.
The frequency of Microsoft updates doesn't really matter to the argument he made. He can't upgrade beyond 2.0.x because of drivers that where made for that kernel. With the exception of jumping from the 9x/me branch to nt/2000 you could pretty much use the same drivers for most devices.
One thing Microsoft does is to make sure that drivers, etc. are generally backwards compatible, sometimes to it's detriment.
I want an actual picture of the message screen on the bathroom server. I know it would be/.ed in no time, but this just sticks text inside of a graphical frame. I want proof!;)
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man -k *
;)
And if you can't remember man with a switch, you can always just use the "apropos" command.
Of course you need filename completion because I can never spell apropos correctly.
If someone where to ask, I'd say it was spelled apr[TAB]
I find lg to be a good alias to have around...
alias lg='ls -la | grep $1'
Of course, you really need to know the commands before you start using all these aliases. It's important.
It's not like learning on VIM is going to make you unable to deal with a situation. If you do find yourself up against a box that only has vi installed, you'll at least be able to go in, do simple edits, and save the file out.
;)
Now only learning emacs would be a mistake, but I'm a bit biased
Hey, that's great! And if you get enough people to join your boycott... the record industry will be totally convinced that nobody is buying CD's anymore because they're all swiping them from the 'Net!
I was just wondering if it's possible to bond these connections together using multiple antennae and wireless transceivers on the same towers?
Would the restriction on power output be calculated on a per antenna or a per installation basis?
Yes, assuming the school and the town 45 miles away are within the same LATA. Are things regulated like this in Canada?
I'm not sure about Canada, but in most rural parts of America a call to a city 45 miles away would be considered long distance.
Considering a rate of 7 cents a minute for 4 lines on from 7am to 4pm, you're looking at about $151 a day in long distance bills.
I'm sure he could get a T1 or some other service that would not only blow it away in quality, but also in price.
This was a very interesting article. A couple of sticking points come to mind immediately. I dunno, maybe I'm a pessimist.
- What if the guy with the DSL connection has his phone and/or electric service cut off for some reason?
- What if, aided by his newfound bandwidth, becomes hopelessly addicted to multimedia porn newsgroups and sucks up all the bandwidth?
- What if they guy moves and is a jerk and takes the Airport basestation and other equipment with him? Even though setting up the shared connection is not technically illegal, it might be a pain to press charges in such a case.
So what did this Linus Torvalds do to deserve this? ;)
I actually like getting those in the mail lately. Now that they come in those nifty DVD hard cases I'm working my way through all my DVD's that came packaged in a cheapo cardboard case and moving them over.
Now if I could find an easy way to get that darn mailing label off the back of them.
Not only that, but are people going to stop using UPS and FedEx also? Is their some law stating that you can only send antrax via the "official" carrier (ie, USPS)?
If they got rid of junk mail I doubt they would make enough money to not ask Congress for huge subsidies.
No, because it's far too easy for someone to do this:
http://home.jam.rr.com/netadmin/duh2.html
...or just have a lot more free time on their hands!
Actually, I heard several reports that a lot of money was being funneled through the sale of honey. Apparently Afghanistan is noted for their premium honey and the terrorists use sales outlets of this honey to move money around.
So can we tack something on there to ban the sale of honey? Down with honey!
Wiretaping and the such will not help at all. Didn't we learn anything from Hogan's Heroes? All the messages they send are like "The package has been delivered" and "The crow flys south in the winter".
How can they possibly differentiate phrases like that from some sort of terrorist communication?
It's not likely that too many of them would be stupid enough to pick up the phone and say "Ok, tomorrow at 9:30am we will spread sarin gas through the NYC subway system."
(oh great, now I've triggered something and they're watching my house. I can see them across the street)
Don't be so upset. I'm sure your email was read (or at least scanned) by your friendly neighborhood FBI/CIA/NSA/whoever agent!
At least someone cares.
I had given PGP several chances. For one reason or another I'd get all fired up about it. I'd go an generate new keys, submit to keyservers, etc.
Then it hit me. Who can I send this to? If I encrypt something, nobody is going to know what to do with it, not even most of my tech savvy friends. Even they don't have current keys that I could get hold of, so I couldn't encrypt it for them.
I settled for signing my messages if for nothing else to spread the PGP word. That ended when I actually had someone who I respected on a mailing list tell me to stop waisting space by including all that "garbage" in every one of my messages.
Geez.
Not only was it not free, it was horribly expensive. We where looking at getting it for a public (read: poor) hospital that I was doing consulting work for a couple of years back. They wanted like $400 per workstation for their "corporate desktop" edition. There was no way they could afford $60,000 for this project.
I see now the price is $179 per workstation on their website. Still pretty pricey for encryption.
From the article it appears that the inflatable part is the box. The drivers are mounted on a board that has several air bladders attached to it in case one pops during the conert. Now who would make a game of popping the speaker cases at a concert? Hmmmm?
Actually you may have hit upon a great idea... Fill them up with helium and let the speakers float above the crowd! Talk about trippy.
Quick, patent it!
I think we're best of, saying we use a Open Source Environment
What does that tell anyone? There are open source environments that don't include either Linux or GNU software.
Maybe we could come up with something like the Geek Code to accurately explain what we have installed on our systems so nobody's feelings get hurt.
I use Linux.
So... if you have old, highly specialized hardware that only works on old drivers, then why do you need to update to a new kernel?
Fortunately for him, his box is behind a firewall, but IIRC there have been a couple of exploits available for early kernels. The only option on a publically accessable box is to upgrade the kernel.
The frequency of Microsoft updates doesn't really matter to the argument he made. He can't upgrade beyond 2.0.x because of drivers that where made for that kernel. With the exception of jumping from the 9x/me branch to nt/2000 you could pretty much use the same drivers for most devices.
One thing Microsoft does is to make sure that drivers, etc. are generally backwards compatible, sometimes to it's detriment.
I want an actual picture of the message screen on the bathroom server. I know it would be /.ed in no time, but this just sticks text inside of a graphical frame. I want proof! ;)