I'll bite, though. I've been a Matrox and Nvidia user ever since I gave a hoot about the card driving the pixels in my machines and stopped buying Trident and S3 cards (so.... maybe 10 years now). For some reason, I've never given ATI a second look, aside from the fact that they seem to be the chipset of all rack-mount servers I've ever used.
I'm in limbo now, though. I'd love to upgrade my Geforce FX 5200/128M card, but I just won't until I can get dual-head and acclerated 3D under FreeBSD/amd64 with an *open source* driver (it matters to me -- I'm sick of binary blobs). Period. The first company who gives me hardware and open sources the drivers (or at least the damned specs) will get my business the minute a driver is available for my platform, and I'll become their biggest volunteer fanboi/astroturfer to reciprocate the deed (on- and offline).
I'll believe it when I see it, though. I ain't holding my breath.
Not for nothing, but the man is nearly 60 years old. Can you really plan any more trilogies around the guy's portrayal of an immortal android who never gets old or tired at this point?
Ask Brent Spiner how well that works. Damn, he looked strung out in Nemesis. Now wonder he killed himself off.
How true. My family has been w/o broadcast TV for about 5 years now. It's great. We watch DVDs, but that's it. It's amazing how much free time one actually has when no TV to be a slave to (I'm sure DVR users can vouch for this), and without all the blipverts tweaking my brain, I actually sleep a lot better than the days with TV. It's amazing the anxiety television watching actually creates. It's weird.
Here is a thought problem that can reveal your true motivations on this issue. Imagine that in the future, all communicable diseases are wiped out, and fertility can be perfectly controlled by each individual. There are no longer any negative physical consequences to being promiscuous. Now. Do you still feel the urge to condemn it? Do you still find yourself searching for some harm that it could be imagined to cause? Or do you celebrate our newfound freedom to have pleasure?
Let me pop a couple of soma, and I'll get back to you with an answer.;)
The LDS Church doesn't ignore the massacre. They do denounce it. What else would they do about such a tragedy?
They could open up the site for archaeological research, for one thing. Last I head, The Church owned it, had some monument set up, held a commemoration, the told researchers they couldn't do any further poking around the site.
You're obviously not paying off the correct public servants.;) Seriously, though... corruption aside, what other deficiencies does the government have?
Well... Clinton played the sax on MTV. Seemed to get some attention. Personally, it sounds like Obama is just name-dropping a popular internet term in order to gain favor with a growing force to be reckoned with -- those who collaborate via the internet. That, and the fact that it's likely to get big-business and some conservatives in a twist so he can point and say, "See? We just want to let every one have this info, but *they* won't let you."
Sure, I agree with his ideal in an absolute sense. However, cynically, I can't give him any real credit. But the means may justify the ends, if it gets the debates opened up.
Does your boss stand over you all day while your doing your job? Are you incredibly naive?
No -- I telecommute. Never met my boss in person.:-P
That said, I'm an adult, and I *choose* to work for who I work for. Kids are forced into compulsory school attendance. If the schools are worried about bad surfing habits, they can -- and should -- have someone watching over the kids or get rid of the goddamned internet from classrooms.
The technical "solutions" for the technical "problems" caused by internet access in schools seem to cause more overhead than is really necessary.
Why such the big fuss with filters and proxies at all? Aren't adults (you know, the *teachers*) present at the computer labs? I can't imagine a kid looking at pr0n while there's an adult in the room, and find it unlikely that visiting non-schoolwork sites would be a problem during a class. So long as they get the work done, who the hell cares what sites they visit? Isn't that the way many real-world computing environment work?
I mean, why have internet access at all if you're going to be such a hard case w/ the filters? Forbidden fruit and all.
That said, I've had to set up filters and monitoring proxies before, and I always hate it. So I'm not faulting you for following the district's mandate.
I'm *so* glad I home-school my kids. The silliness that is public school these days is so infuriating.
I have a cron job that runs svn against/etc and/usr/local/etc once an hour. That way I can recover if I totally hose a working config file. Works pretty well.
Even so, many people believe the prospects for solar energy have never looked brighter. Decades of research have improved the efficiency of silicon-based solar cells from 6% to an average of 15% today, whereas improvements in manufacturing have reduced the price of modules from about $200 per watt in the 1950s to $2.70 in 2004. Within three to eight years, many in the industry expect the price of solar power to be cost-competitive with electricity from the grid.
That must be in huge lots. If you can locate panels online for end-user purchase that are $4/watt you're doing pretty good. If I could find $2.70/watt I'd spend a lot of money very quickly.
I've followed consumer-level solar stuff for the past 7 years or so, even subscribing to Home Power Magazine for a few years. Prices haven't gone down much at all during that time.
I've been a/. member for 10 years now, and these "cheaper, more efficient" solar panel techniques have popped up at least a two or three times a year. When the hell can I go shopping for consumer grade panels and find something substantially below $4/Watt?
Given the subsidies solar research has had since the 70s, I can't figure out why progress has been so slow for the past 30 years. I'm not a big conspiracy buff, but, given the explosive rate of technology on other fronts over the same period, something just doesn't seem right.
Have you tried the suite of utils that David Korn wrote for Windows? Just curious. I tried it several years ago, and was impressed. I haven't done a side-by-side between Cygwin and Korn's tools, though.
I was hoping for something more transparent, like the VMS version mechanism. No user intervention needed.
I envision the day when hard drives are so large that every version of every file can be stored indefinitely. Imagine being able to, as a senior CS student, fetch some code that you wrote freshman year but deleted. Very useful indeed!
Isn't zfs slated to appear in FreeBSD 7.0? Is the snapshot ability of zfs close enough?
I hear you, though. I'm a die-hard FreeBSD user, who migrated from Linux a few years back. The ext3cow announcement had me questioning my own loyalties, too.:)
After reading one of the papers, it looks like you need to actually take a snapshot, though. I was hoping for an more automatic version system, as with the VMS versioning stuff.
Just log all internal IPs trying to hit external IPs on port 25 (except your mail servers, of course). That's pretty much it. If it's an NT domain, you can search the authentication logs for the IP to get a pretty good idea of who sits at the machine. Proceed accordingly. Don't fart around with disinfecting -- wipe, reinstall, and lock down.
I recently signed up with them. Aside from their quirky/cool pricing scheme, the site's strong stance against censorship and privacy sold me on it instantly. All sites that get the ISP boot for unpopular (but not illegal in the US) should check out nearlyfreespeech.net.
My only relation is a happy, new customer. It may not be the best fit for Cryptome, but there are at least hosting providers that do give a shit about not bowing down to the status quo.
Just be glad they weren't the kind of ruffians who point chicken nuggets and people. Those things a dangerous, and your buddies would have, rightly so, spent a night in the county lock-up for such brazen disregard for people's well-being.
and a bullet from a cheap gun will kill you just as dead as a bullet from an expensive one.
Indeed. To paraphrase something I read in a magazine (or was that a usenet posting?): "The lowly.22 has probably killed more people than all other rounds combined."
At reasonable range, the.22 can certainly kill a person. I've dispatched a couple of pigs with my kids' "Davey Cricket" rifle. Single shot to the head, and down they go. And a pig's skull is really, really sturdy.
$200 Will buy you the sturdiest.22LR semi-auto on the planet (the Ruger 10/22) from Wal Mart. For an extra $10 you can grab a brick of 500 rounds while you're waiting for your background check to clear.
Or, at the same store, you can get a youth model 12-guage shotgun for maybe $100 and 100 shells for maybe $15.
You can often get better deals on the 2nd-hand market, without those pesky background checks. Check your local paper or free classifieds paper. The Christmas season and tax season seem to be high-volume times when people are liquidating firearms for cash, to either finance new toys or pay The Man for another year.
In summary, there's no reason anyone with a regular income should not be able to invest in the safety of their home or person.
Define "slow links". I've used VNC over dial-up, and it was acceptable. That said, physical presence at the console blows away any remote management software, but remote solutions do the job. My comment was simply that remote desktop stuff wasn't (in my opinion) a killer feature worthy of upgrading to XP. Real servers run Unix (accessible via SSH), and any decent admin who's forced to endure managing Windows machines (be it desktop or server) will learn to keep the need for remote management to a bare minimum. So, again, I don't see RD as a compelling feature.
I manage a small office's Windows desktops and unix server. I SSH (with fastest crypto protocol and compression max'ed out) into the server via a port redirect on the broadband router, and use port forwarding to VNC into the desktops. Both ends are on DSL (mine isn't stellar as far as speed goes), but it's generally snappy enough that I could imagine it working well via dial-up. And I haven't trimmed all the fat in the VNC set-up, either (decent image quality, resolution, etc.).
To quote the duck: "Consequences, shmonsequences...as long as I'm rich."
I don't really see how this will help. As it takes a big legal team to fight these big corporations, we'll mostly see results like most other big lawsuits. The laywers will settle for a huge amount, get most of it, and business will go on as normal. Even if it's not a class-action and comes down to a single plaintiff actually winning a substantial judgement, it won't be enough to curb the abuses. It never does.
What we really need is a legal foundation that puts the out-gunned individual on even ground with corporations. If being sued into the ground by a corp can ruin a person, the reverse should be true. If convicted of major wrong-doing, a company's bank roll, officers, and board should suffer losses and hardship. Enron-like convictions should be the rule, not the exception.
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I'm in limbo now, though. I'd love to upgrade my Geforce FX 5200/128M card, but I just won't until I can get dual-head and acclerated 3D under FreeBSD/amd64 with an *open source* driver (it matters to me -- I'm sick of binary blobs). Period. The first company who gives me hardware and open sources the drivers (or at least the damned specs) will get my business the minute a driver is available for my platform, and I'll become their biggest volunteer fanboi/astroturfer to reciprocate the deed (on- and offline).
I'll believe it when I see it, though. I ain't holding my breath.
Ask Brent Spiner how well that works. Damn, he looked strung out in Nemesis. Now wonder he killed himself off.
How true. My family has been w/o broadcast TV for about 5 years now. It's great. We watch DVDs, but that's it. It's amazing how much free time one actually has when no TV to be a slave to (I'm sure DVR users can vouch for this), and without all the blipverts tweaking my brain, I actually sleep a lot better than the days with TV. It's amazing the anxiety television watching actually creates. It's weird.
Let me pop a couple of soma, and I'll get back to you with an answer. ;)
They could open up the site for archaeological research, for one thing. Last I head, The Church owned it, had some monument set up, held a commemoration, the told researchers they couldn't do any further poking around the site.
Why? Does he smell like cabbage?
You're obviously not paying off the correct public servants. ;) Seriously, though... corruption aside, what other deficiencies does the government have?
Sure, I agree with his ideal in an absolute sense. However, cynically, I can't give him any real credit. But the means may justify the ends, if it gets the debates opened up.
No -- I telecommute. Never met my boss in person. :-P
That said, I'm an adult, and I *choose* to work for who I work for. Kids are forced into compulsory school attendance. If the schools are worried about bad surfing habits, they can -- and should -- have someone watching over the kids or get rid of the goddamned internet from classrooms.
The technical "solutions" for the technical "problems" caused by internet access in schools seem to cause more overhead than is really necessary.
I agree. I heard a British review called Austrailian Table Wines a few years ago. They pulled no punches on that one, I can tell you ;)
Why such the big fuss with filters and proxies at all? Aren't adults (you know, the *teachers*) present at the computer labs? I can't imagine a kid looking at pr0n while there's an adult in the room, and find it unlikely that visiting non-schoolwork sites would be a problem during a class. So long as they get the work done, who the hell cares what sites they visit? Isn't that the way many real-world computing environment work?
I mean, why have internet access at all if you're going to be such a hard case w/ the filters? Forbidden fruit and all.
That said, I've had to set up filters and monitoring proxies before, and I always hate it. So I'm not faulting you for following the district's mandate.
I'm *so* glad I home-school my kids. The silliness that is public school these days is so infuriating.
I have a cron job that runs svn against /etc and /usr/local/etc once an hour. That way I can recover if I totally hose a working config file. Works pretty well.
That must be in huge lots. If you can locate panels online for end-user purchase that are $4/watt you're doing pretty good. If I could find $2.70/watt I'd spend a lot of money very quickly.
I've followed consumer-level solar stuff for the past 7 years or so, even subscribing to Home Power Magazine for a few years. Prices haven't gone down much at all during that time.
Given the subsidies solar research has had since the 70s, I can't figure out why progress has been so slow for the past 30 years. I'm not a big conspiracy buff, but, given the explosive rate of technology on other fronts over the same period, something just doesn't seem right.
Have you tried the suite of utils that David Korn wrote for Windows? Just curious. I tried it several years ago, and was impressed. I haven't done a side-by-side between Cygwin and Korn's tools, though.
I envision the day when hard drives are so large that every version of every file can be stored indefinitely. Imagine being able to, as a senior CS student, fetch some code that you wrote freshman year but deleted. Very useful indeed!
I hear you, though. I'm a die-hard FreeBSD user, who migrated from Linux a few years back. The ext3cow announcement had me questioning my own loyalties, too. :)
After reading one of the papers, it looks like you need to actually take a snapshot, though. I was hoping for an more automatic version system, as with the VMS versioning stuff.
Just log all internal IPs trying to hit external IPs on port 25 (except your mail servers, of course). That's pretty much it. If it's an NT domain, you can search the authentication logs for the IP to get a pretty good idea of who sits at the machine. Proceed accordingly. Don't fart around with disinfecting -- wipe, reinstall, and lock down.
My only relation is a happy, new customer. It may not be the best fit for Cryptome, but there are at least hosting providers that do give a shit about not bowing down to the status quo.
Just be glad they weren't the kind of ruffians who point chicken nuggets and people. Those things a dangerous, and your buddies would have, rightly so, spent a night in the county lock-up for such brazen disregard for people's well-being.
There are very few people I'd literally pay to dance on their graves. These two are usually the first to come to mind.
Indeed. To paraphrase something I read in a magazine (or was that a usenet posting?): "The lowly .22 has probably killed more people than all other rounds combined."
At reasonable range, the .22 can certainly kill a person. I've dispatched a couple of pigs with my kids' "Davey Cricket" rifle. Single shot to the head, and down they go. And a pig's skull is really, really sturdy.
$200 Will buy you the sturdiest .22LR semi-auto on the planet (the Ruger 10/22) from Wal Mart. For an extra $10 you can grab a brick of 500 rounds while you're waiting for your background check to clear.
Or, at the same store, you can get a youth model 12-guage shotgun for maybe $100 and 100 shells for maybe $15.
You can often get better deals on the 2nd-hand market, without those pesky background checks. Check your local paper or free classifieds paper. The Christmas season and tax season seem to be high-volume times when people are liquidating firearms for cash, to either finance new toys or pay The Man for another year.
In summary, there's no reason anyone with a regular income should not be able to invest in the safety of their home or person.
I manage a small office's Windows desktops and unix server. I SSH (with fastest crypto protocol and compression max'ed out) into the server via a port redirect on the broadband router, and use port forwarding to VNC into the desktops. Both ends are on DSL (mine isn't stellar as far as speed goes), but it's generally snappy enough that I could imagine it working well via dial-up. And I haven't trimmed all the fat in the VNC set-up, either (decent image quality, resolution, etc.).
To each their own, though.
Why not VNC? Remote desktop is hardly a killer OS feature.
I don't really see how this will help. As it takes a big legal team to fight these big corporations, we'll mostly see results like most other big lawsuits. The laywers will settle for a huge amount, get most of it, and business will go on as normal. Even if it's not a class-action and comes down to a single plaintiff actually winning a substantial judgement, it won't be enough to curb the abuses. It never does.
What we really need is a legal foundation that puts the out-gunned individual on even ground with corporations. If being sued into the ground by a corp can ruin a person, the reverse should be true. If convicted of major wrong-doing, a company's bank roll, officers, and board should suffer losses and hardship. Enron-like convictions should be the rule, not the exception.
As if that will ever happen, though....