I was happy though that I had my previous SunOS/Solaris ski11z to get me through the partitioning and network setup
A word of warning if you try to use your Linux and/or Windows skills to partition OpenBSD for the first time. I figured that all 'fdisk' programs work pretty similar, so I didn't RTFM. It turns out that they have a completely different concept of 'partition', and I blew away all of the other OSes on the box. Live and learn.
It's a nice little OS, though, if a little spartan.
I think the biggest hurdle facing a manned mission to mars is how to coop-up 5-10 people for 2 years in a tin can with the living space of an apartment without them going bonkers and killing each other.
Well, a few hundred years ago they used to coop up dozens of people in a wooden barrel with the living space of an apartment and send them on journeys that could last for years. I guess a few of them probably killed each other, but it didn't seem to deter them.
How much would it cost to compile and stamp out a DVD with all of the online articles you can find on it? It would probably hold most everything available today (minus pictures, maybe).
To address your modification concerns, do an MD5 hash on it and chisel the hashcode into the floor of the Library of Congress. Sell the DVD to the public at cost; there probably would be thousands of takers. There would almost certainly be a few disks still around 200 years from now. (They might need to be special gold DVDs due to reports of old aluminum CDs rotting already).
Limiting what can be bundled with it just not just apply to MS. It could be extended to include other OS's, Mac, Linux, etc.
It won't apply unless one of these other OS's becomes a monopoly. People forget that U.S. law puts monopolies in a special category that's different from other enterprises. The government is not arbitrarily picking on some random business for being too successful.
If they really want to continue to practice their current hardball business tactics (which are legal for you and me, but illegal for monopolies), nobody is stopping them from voluntarily splitting themselves up into independent non-monopoly corporations. These entities could compete and "innovate" as hard as they please. Otherwise, they should either stop their illegal actions, or lobby to get the laws changed ASAP.
XP is just Windows 2000 with themes and a few other insignificant changes, mostly cosmetic.
The significant thing with Windows XP is that the unwashed masses never got to touch Win2K. Most all consumer PCs shipped with DOS 12.0^H^H^H^H^H Windows ME. This will actually be a huge deal for that reason alone.
You know, if your neighborhood is so crime ridden that you actually make room in your house for decoy PCs, maybe you should consider moving somewhere else.
I have come to realize that the bad grammar and mispellings made by the editors are part of an effort to create a/. mystique. Your attempts to correct them are futile, as have been countless previous attempts, because they are intentionally sloppy.
The editors are trying to give you the impression that they are 3l337 h4X0r5 with no time for proofreading. That tends to make whole site more 'hip' and compelling.
This is similar to Dr. Dre rapping about being a common street thug, when in reality he is a big time music industry mogul. They're selling an image.
Well, I guess you've got to compete with someone
to stay motivated. With the Soviet Union out of
the picture, NASA just competes
with itself instead. That probably wouldn't be
so bad, but I'm sure that the internal competition
pulls in random directions instead of directing
everyone towards the same goal. Good managers
would figure out how to channel all of that
natural tension in a productive manner; right now
it is just being dissapated.
But if you can't even train people to not click on unknown attachments, you'll never train them to create a bogus account to run an attachment in. The outlook worms work just fine with default user privileges, so Unix doesn't really solve the problem any more than NT/Win2K do (under which you can also create bogus accounts in 30 seconds, BTW).
The real root of this problem is that MS created an application (Outlook) that is an ideal breeding ground for social engineering attacks. In theory, a similar application could be created for Linux; we just don't expect that such an app would become popular on this platform. (But you never know... they're porting.NET as we speak.)
This particular form of intellectual property theft has been going on since the first duplex theater was opened. The politicians probably have warm fuzzy memories if sneaking into movies when they were kids; it's as American as apple pie. Hence, no reason to create special new laws like the DMCA to stamp out the perpetrators.
sneaking into movie == clever kid
watching DVD in wrong region == felon
Linux 2.4.7? I can beat that... I'm running on Linux 7.1!
I'm still trying to come to terms with the fact that I dropped 1992.9 points when I transitioned from Windows 2000 to Red Hat 7.1. It's going to be a long climb back.
See, in physics we require "five sigma" to claim a discovery.
That's unacceptable. You physicists need to institute a six-sigma program if you wan't to acheive true quality, customer satisfaction and cost-effectiveness.
You should select your black-belt candidates and start training them as soon as possible.
The only 100% intuitive interface is the nipple...
Indeed, a brilliant design; a classic. Simple and compelling. After all these years, a nipple is still a joy to use.
Don't let the simplicity fool you, though: It may be very hard or even impossible to access this interface. Truly advanced usage involves highly complex interactions and great skill. And, like the sourcerer's apprentice, you could bring about significant side effects that could permanently change your life, for better or for worse.
IANARS but I'll attempt to explain navigation anyway:
Particles from the sun have momentum in a direction aimed directly away from the sun. The sail can reflect these in many directions,
recoiling similar to a pool ball off of a cue ball.
Also, since the spacecraft is in orbit, it can move in by reducing its orbital velocity,
and out by increasing it. So, if the orbit around the sun is clockwise, to move
towards the sun you tilt the sail to the left. Particles reflect to the right,
the sail gets pushed to the left, slowing the orbit and shrinking it.
I think that any "test" is bogus unless the target missle and warhead use countermeasures that are unknown to the defenders. In other words, assign a team to try to circumvent the defense in secret, and let it use any of the myriad possibe ways to do this. That is exactly what would happen in the real world.
Unless this is done, we're just throwing money down the drain. Even if this is done, we're probably still throwing money down the drain, because the countermeasures will almost surely succeed.
At least realizing our failure we would avoid the false sense of security that we're driving for now. This reminds me of why I don't use a radar dectector these days: the cops now have instant-on and laser guns; I'd drive even faster and would be more likely to get busted.
This trillion dollar radar detector gadget is no substitute for the boring grunt work, spying and infiltration that the CIA and NSA are supposed to be doing to help protect us from these threats.
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I think they should reconsider using one of the crazy personal space rescue systems from the 60's. It looks cheap to build, and it would probably be a blast to ride!
The court's observation is that the law applies to the cops to. I LIKE that idea. LOTS. If you want to place cops in a different category, not held to the same laws as you and me, then your line of reasoning is the way to do it.
The issue isn't whether you or I put the cops in a different category. The big problem is that many cops see fit to place themselves in a different category. In the real world full of like-minded cops, they have little to fear.
How many times has a cop car without its lights on blow by you doing 90MPH on the freeway? Have you ever seen one of these guys pulled over for speeding?
...is the sound of your tax dollars being sucked into this disasterous white elephant project. Since it was started, this project's budget and schedule have multiplied by huge factors, while its capabilities and value have decreased to a small fraction of their original puny cold war justifications. In fact, with the latest cuts in the scope of the mission, the value of this thing is just about zero since the skeleton crew is busy full time just maintaining the equipment.
It makes me sick to think about what we could have learned from the hundreds of unmanned probes that could have been funded and launched to all parts of the solar system and beyond with the money that has been senselessly squandered on this boondogle.
No, I didn't say that. What we should not do is just build more coal and nuclear plants and then sit on our asses, congratulating ourselves for a job well done.
We will have to build some more of these, but in parallel, we need to develop better replacemnt technologies.
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A word of warning if you try to use your Linux and/or Windows skills to partition OpenBSD for the first time. I figured that all 'fdisk' programs work pretty similar, so I didn't RTFM. It turns out that they have a completely different concept of 'partition', and I blew away all of the other OSes on the box. Live and learn.
It's a nice little OS, though, if a little spartan.
The investigation was a total BS whitewash job. They covered up all of the evidence relating to the second archer behind the grassy knoll.
I vote for beer. (Which is consistent with both H2O and CO2 hypotheses, BTW.)
Well, a few hundred years ago they used to coop up dozens of people in a wooden barrel with the living space of an apartment and send them on journeys that could last for years. I guess a few of them probably killed each other, but it didn't seem to deter them.
To address your modification concerns, do an MD5 hash on it and chisel the hashcode into the floor of the Library of Congress. Sell the DVD to the public at cost; there probably would be thousands of takers. There would almost certainly be a few disks still around 200 years from now. (They might need to be special gold DVDs due to reports of old aluminum CDs rotting already).
It won't apply unless one of these other OS's becomes a monopoly. People forget that U.S. law puts monopolies in a special category that's different from other enterprises. The government is not arbitrarily picking on some random business for being too successful.
If they really want to continue to practice their current hardball business tactics (which are legal for you and me, but illegal for monopolies), nobody is stopping them from voluntarily splitting themselves up into independent non-monopoly corporations. These entities could compete and "innovate" as hard as they please. Otherwise, they should either stop their illegal actions, or lobby to get the laws changed ASAP.
The significant thing with Windows XP is that the unwashed masses never got to touch Win2K. Most all consumer PCs shipped with DOS 12.0^H^H^H^H^H Windows ME. This will actually be a huge deal for that reason alone.
You know, if your neighborhood is so crime ridden that you actually make room in your house for decoy PCs, maybe you should consider moving somewhere else.
The editors are trying to give you the impression that they are 3l337 h4X0r5 with no time for proofreading. That tends to make whole site more 'hip' and compelling.
This is similar to Dr. Dre rapping about being a common street thug, when in reality he is a big time music industry mogul. They're selling an image.
Well, I guess you've got to compete with someone to stay motivated. With the Soviet Union out of the picture, NASA just competes with itself instead. That probably wouldn't be so bad, but I'm sure that the internal competition pulls in random directions instead of directing everyone towards the same goal. Good managers would figure out how to channel all of that natural tension in a productive manner; right now it is just being dissapated.
The real root of this problem is that MS created an application (Outlook) that is an ideal breeding ground for social engineering attacks. In theory, a similar application could be created for Linux; we just don't expect that such an app would become popular on this platform. (But you never know ... they're porting .NET as we speak.)
sneaking into movie == clever kid
watching DVD in wrong region == felon
How many space missions did Edison accomplish with his private funding?
I'm still trying to come to terms with the fact that I dropped 1992.9 points when I transitioned from Windows 2000 to Red Hat 7.1. It's going to be a long climb back.
BTW, what radix is 'XP' coded in?
That's unacceptable. You physicists need to institute a six-sigma program if you wan't to acheive true quality, customer satisfaction and cost-effectiveness.
You should select your black-belt candidates and start training them as soon as possible.
Indeed, a brilliant design; a classic. Simple and compelling. After all these years, a nipple is still a joy to use.
Don't let the simplicity fool you, though: It may be very hard or even impossible to access this interface. Truly advanced usage involves highly complex interactions and great skill. And, like the sourcerer's apprentice, you could bring about significant side effects that could permanently change your life, for better or for worse.
Particles from the sun have momentum in a direction aimed directly away from the sun. The sail can reflect these in many directions, recoiling similar to a pool ball off of a cue ball.
Also, since the spacecraft is in orbit, it can move in by reducing its orbital velocity, and out by increasing it. So, if the orbit around the sun is clockwise, to move towards the sun you tilt the sail to the left. Particles reflect to the right, the sail gets pushed to the left, slowing the orbit and shrinking it.
Unless this is done, we're just throwing money down the drain. Even if this is done, we're probably still throwing money down the drain, because the countermeasures will almost surely succeed.
At least realizing our failure we would avoid the false sense of security that we're driving for now. This reminds me of why I don't use a radar dectector these days: the cops now have instant-on and laser guns; I'd drive even faster and would be more likely to get busted.
This trillion dollar radar detector gadget is no substitute for the boring grunt work, spying and infiltration that the CIA and NSA are supposed to be doing to help protect us from these threats.
I think they should reconsider using one of the crazy personal space rescue systems from the 60's. It looks cheap to build, and it would probably be a blast to ride!
I may be an idiot, but what about the scientists behind the announcement that Astronomers Discover Planet Around Binary Star
...running one of these things on a planet orbiting a binary star system?
The issue isn't whether you or I put the cops in a different category. The big problem is that many cops see fit to place themselves in a different category. In the real world full of like-minded cops, they have little to fear.
How many times has a cop car without its lights on blow by you doing 90MPH on the freeway? Have you ever seen one of these guys pulled over for speeding?
It makes me sick to think about what we could have learned from the hundreds of unmanned probes that could have been funded and launched to all parts of the solar system and beyond with the money that has been senselessly squandered on this boondogle.
No, I didn't say that. What we should not do is just build more coal and nuclear plants and then sit on our asses, congratulating ourselves for a job well done.
We will have to build some more of these, but in parallel, we need to develop better replacemnt technologies.