A computer should be as close to self healing and reliable as possible, and whenever possible it should update and restore itself.
That's exactly what needs to happen.
A surprising step that hasn't become the standard part of many (if any) is the use of the badmem kernel patch to weed out errors in bad memory sticks and make the computer more stable.
This is a perfect example of software correcting a hardware error with the result being a more stable system.
We do run a basic filtering system that catches a lot of the spam, but we're still receiving several thousand messages a day. It's a strain on our database and more importantly on our customer support staff who have to wade through all of the spam.
An improvement on your system might be to create some bogus addresses early in the alpha space - i.e. aaaaa1234@mycompany, aaaa2841@mycompany etc... - say 20 or so and then spread those onto all sorts of places where you know it will be snatched up and spammed. All email that these addys recieve is automatically spam and can be used as a filter for legit addys to help your current spam filter.
In Vancouver, there is a restaraunt called the Afro-Canadian Restaraunt at 324 Cambie St. Phone Number is 604-682-2646. I have a picture of it, but not bandwidth for Slashdot.
Except this was a private business whose product (internet access) was being degraded because they were being blacklisted because of a Spammer.
That has real consequences to the business, as customers may not return when they find that they can't send email to their company/friends from that particular cafe.
Why would I take a multi-day train ride across the Arctic and the Bering straight?
Because you were a low cost commodity being shipped on a container train??
Trains can travel much faster than ships and deliver cargo to multiple places along a route. Passenger traffic through the Artic would be negligible for the reasons you state.
And another factor is that die sizes decrease while leakage increases. So the heat leakage per square mm will increase even more. This puts even more strain on the guys designing cooling systems....
Which means they need faster processors to design their cooling systems. Oh, the Humanity!!
I'm not sure that it is a loophole. It's not as challenging as doing it the other way, but let's face it, this is being done for the military, and you're extremely naive to think that the military doesn't have precise topography maps of the entire world, or that they can't obtain such maps in short order. Remember, a key component to cruise missile technology is topography. Remember in GWI, the cruise missiles took hours and hours to program before launch. Now, they can be reprogrammed in minutes.
So, the current method used by the Red Team may likely be how the military would implement it in the first generations of this type of equipment. Plan the best route manually and then tell the automaton what track it should generally take and let it navigate the minor obsticals.
Disclaimer: I'm not involved in DARPA in any manner.
Would there be a way to have the browser display some sort of image transparency on the secure web page?
If the user was forced to pick a unique picture/bitmap/watermark that would be displayed on secure webpages by the browser, it could help with security. I.E. Design the browser so no ssl pages work until the user selects a unique bmp/jpeg that would be displayed as a unique overlay somewhere on the web page that allows them to verify that the page is secured.
Her windows kept borking and being 1600 miles away made tech support a bit difficult.
As all she does is surf the web, check mail, and occasionally print things out, Linux was the perfect solution for me.
I installed a Mandrake Distro, set up Evolution, and had the thing connect when it needed to. There was only 1 problem over 2 years - and that was when she somehow deleted a configuration file in Evolution. I sshed in, scped the missing file, changed the permissions so that it was read only, and there were never any other problems.
However, recently a new machine was purchased and my brother helped them set up Windows XP. He's now got tech support and I'm clean and free, as I've never used XP and only seen it run twice.
Physicians in several states are starting countersuits.
Surprisingly, the lawyers say the suits are without merit.
I'd actually love to see a small town that now has no medical care because physicians have been driven out due to high malpractice insurance start a class-action lawsuit against the ambulance chasers. After all, their actions have led to real-risk by real-people.
When the golden hour is the one hour drive to see the OB, something is wrong.
I totally understand how frustrating it must be to have someone screw up like that (my own grandmother got a terrible knee infection after a nurse screwed up and put her post op knee in a whirlpool). These types of cases *should* be taken to court or some sort of resolution sought.
Except that you can't PROVE that the whirlpool was the reason for the infection. ANY TIME SOMEONE CUTS YOUR SKIN, there is a risk of infection. Knee infections are KNOWN POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS from knee surgery.
No one can PROVE that the infection wasn't the statistical background vs poor interoperative procedure vs whirlpool. And many poor outcomes have similar confounding problems. It would be nigh impossible to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the whirlpool caused the infection. I guess that's why malpractice is in civil court and not criminal court.
I can't recall hearing of a large judgement against a doctor, hospital, or HMO recently where the case was minor.
No. But it still COSTS MONEY to defend the minor cases. That's the problem on the legal side.
If Joe Patient sues me because he had to have his ingrown toenail removed again, I now have to defend myself, even though the case is trivial. So my insurance blows 10K+ defending this trivial case, and I've got to pay more insurance.
When I was in Med School in Alabama, we had two lectures from Lawyers, one from a Plaintiff's lawyer and one from a Defense Lawyer. Both stated that in Alabama, only 20% of cases brought to trial in the state ended in Plantiff Verdicts. So, consider the amount of money spent defending the other 80% that went to court and the innumerable others that were settled out of court and it becomes easier to see the scope of the problem. It's one of the reasons that some in the medical field are pushing for a Medical Court or Medical Approval Board that deems whether a malpractice case can/should be pursued.
There is a disconnect in the system that makes this a very bad idea for physicians.
Health care is highly regulated in the U.S. Physicians can't control their overhead (malpractice insurance, front office staff) and can only control their income by seeing more patients an hour, as the prices are mostly fixed. Now, the portions of health care that aren't highly regulated are prescription drug costs and LAWSUITS.
Because the overhead is fixed, and price/visit is fixed (and has declined every year since 1992), the only way to make more money is to see more patients in the same amount of time. This exposes a physician to more risk because of number of people seen and less time/patient. Physicians are humans, and they will make mistakes, and it is extremely difficult to manage risk in an environment where the population is underserved, you're underpaid and overworked.
Now, add these mistakes to the legal system - a system that isn't regulated. A jury of 12 people too stupid to get out of jury duty hear arguments about complex medical cases. At this point, the physician is under extreme risk because, even if he practiced the standard of care and solid evidence based medicine, a good defense lawyer can win a jury over despite the facts/evidence: I.E. "Mrs. Jones expected to have a perfect child but because of the delay of delivery, the child has cerebral palsy and needs $$$ for health-care costs..."
Now, despite following standard of care, you as an INDIVIDUAL PHYSICIAN can lose everything you've made in one lawsuit. This leads to further escalations in health care costs, as test-ordering becomes the only mechanism a physician can minimize his risk. Plus, the system is designed to discourage quality improvement/assurance processes that are common in other areas of modern business, because the INDIVIDUAL PHYSICIAN IS PERSONABLY LIABLE for mistakes, even mistakes of the system.
Now, tell me, if every time you fscked up on your job you were liable to lose everything you ever made, would you point those things out to others? I assure you the answer is no.
It is unfortunate that the system has come to this, because most people are understanding and don't abuse the system. But the system is ripe for abuse, and it only takes a small number of people (think 1-2/500,000) getting windfall suits to send it out of control. That's less than SPAM responder rates, but with real negative consequences, not only for individual physicians, but communities that are losing access to health care because of upward spiraling malpractice rates.
I would like to see QI/QA implemented in medicine, but it's not going to happen until the risk for the individual practitioner is practically removed for reporting errors.
The Mandrake Club idea has always advertised itself as primarilly a way for people to give something back to Mandrake.
They have, have they?
In my Preferences page at MandrakeClub.com, I see this. Club Benefits
* Access to MandrakeClub.com -- a place where your voice will be heard (Emphasis mine)
There is an article on MANDRAKE CLUB which states that this hasn't been the case for several months, if not a year.
Many MandrakeClub members have asked for private FTP servers, as they are PAYING CUSTOMERS of MandrakeClub. I don't mind if Mandrake uses torrents for truly free downloads, but when I'm paying a company to be a member of their club with purported benefits, a kludgy slow product delivery system really isn't a way to keep me happy. I'm not alone in this sentiment, and I'm sorry the parent got modded as a troll, but ever since 9.1 club members have been asking, nay begging, for private club-access only ftp servers for distro releases. This has been summarily ignored, and instead a kludgy torrent system is used to further piss off loyal customers.
So now they switch to Bittorrent, and now you'll have to wait at most a few days to get your ISOs, and they save serious cash.
What you meant to say was that now they switch to Bittorrent, and now their loyal paying customers are not renewing, and they lose cash.
I've given Mandrake more money in the last two years that I've given Microsoft in the past 5 because I truly believe they have one of the best distros, and I want to contribute to the success of the distro. However, when I'm mistreated and lied to by the management of the company, I'm simply not going to give them any more money. And I'm not alone in this feeling. It's truly a shame, because 2 years ago when they were going belly up, I joined to help them survive. And they have, for now. But this past year (since Deno left. FWIW, Deno was awesome) has given me insight into why they likely got into the situation in the first place, and why they're likely to end up back there.
In the mean time, I'm going to look for a different place to financially support Linux in general and perhaps a distribution in particular.
I'm a club member for two years, and my membership will expire today. I will not renew.
Several Years Ago Mandrake was in financial difficulties because of poor management. They created MandrakeClub to offer those who liked the distribution an opportunity to help support the company with the kickback of having the voices of the paying customer heard. For at least the past 9 months, this has not been the case. MandrakeClub has become a representativeless moneyhole where loyal paying customers are given the shaft. The idea of RPM voting was a good one, but the most popular RPMs were never packaged. In what was to become a common theme, paying customers were being totally ignored.
Today holds the ultimate example of why I won't be renewing. Club members have been asking for ftp servers as the bittorrent releases don't work. Well, once again they've decided not to listen ot their loyal paying customers and released the 10.0 distro to the Club members - via bittorrent. This is a horridly slow innefective solution. For paying customers, the proper thing to do is offer password protected FTP servers.
Now I know that lots of people think bittorrent is a great idea, but it isn't. Only Club members get the torrents, and right now it looks like it might get downloaded here by next week. The club simply isn't big enough to support bittorrent releases. Bittorrent releases would be a good idea for the non-paying public, but it is a most crappy way to treat loyal paying customers. I'm currently getting less than 10kB/s down using bittorrent.
In 6 months, when Mandrake is again scraping the bottom of the financial barrier, I will not shed a tear for their demise. The developers are good, but the management is horrible. Anyone who treats loyal paying customers as crappily as Mandrake does ends up in the annals of history as yet another failed company.
specifically, if you want Serial ATA, stay away from boards with the Silicon Image 3x12 SATA controller. IT IS NOT LINUX COMPATIBLE under modern distros. Silicon Image advertises it as LINUX COMPATIBLE, as they have binary only drivers for Redhat 8.
I was dissapointed that by Gigabyte K8A Pro motherboard had this chip on it and it DOES NOT WORK under Linux.
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A computer should be as close to self healing and reliable as possible, and whenever possible it should update and restore itself.
That's exactly what needs to happen.
A surprising step that hasn't become the standard part of many (if any) is the use of the badmem kernel patch to weed out errors in bad memory sticks and make the computer more stable.
This is a perfect example of software correcting a hardware error with the result being a more stable system.
Posted ac for my job...
The important question is have you taught the Indian fellow who will replace you how to post anonymously to Slashdot?
But then I saw that you were in England
Have you considered gas powered generators at all? They're likely to be cheaper, easier to maintain, more powerful, and reliable.
What are your electricity needs?
Everyone knows that there is no Gold Man, but there is a Gold Member.
The question isn't "why" but rather, "How long before we see this setup on MTV's Cribs?"
We do run a basic filtering system that catches a lot of the spam, but we're still receiving several thousand messages a day. It's a strain on our database and more importantly on our customer support staff who have to wade through all of the spam.
An improvement on your system might be to create some bogus addresses early in the alpha space - i.e. aaaaa1234@mycompany, aaaa2841@mycompany etc... - say 20 or so and then spread those onto all sorts of places where you know it will be snatched up and spammed. All email that these addys recieve is automatically spam and can be used as a filter for legit addys to help your current spam filter.
I'm not sure it's just a joke.
In Vancouver, there is a restaraunt called the Afro-Canadian Restaraunt at 324 Cambie St. Phone Number is 604-682-2646. I have a picture of it, but not bandwidth for Slashdot.
Except this was a private business whose product (internet access) was being degraded because they were being blacklisted because of a Spammer.
That has real consequences to the business, as customers may not return when they find that they can't send email to their company/friends from that particular cafe.
Why would I take a multi-day train ride across the Arctic and the Bering straight?
Because you were a low cost commodity being shipped on a container train??
Trains can travel much faster than ships and deliver cargo to multiple places along a route. Passenger traffic through the Artic would be negligible for the reasons you state.
And another factor is that die sizes decrease while leakage increases. So the heat leakage per square mm will increase even more. This puts even more strain on the guys designing cooling systems....
Which means they need faster processors to design their cooling systems. Oh, the Humanity!!
That webserver won't let me see paradise by the dashboard lights.
I'm not sure that it is a loophole. It's not as challenging as doing it the other way, but let's face it, this is being done for the military, and you're extremely naive to think that the military doesn't have precise topography maps of the entire world, or that they can't obtain such maps in short order. Remember, a key component to cruise missile technology is topography. Remember in GWI, the cruise missiles took hours and hours to program before launch. Now, they can be reprogrammed in minutes.
So, the current method used by the Red Team may likely be how the military would implement it in the first generations of this type of equipment. Plan the best route manually and then tell the automaton what track it should generally take and let it navigate the minor obsticals.
Disclaimer: I'm not involved in DARPA in any manner.
Would there be a way to have the browser display some sort of image transparency on the secure web page?
If the user was forced to pick a unique picture/bitmap/watermark that would be displayed on secure webpages by the browser, it could help with security. I.E. Design the browser so no ssl pages work until the user selects a unique bmp/jpeg that would be displayed as a unique overlay somewhere on the web page that allows them to verify that the page is secured.
Her windows kept borking and being 1600 miles away made tech support a bit difficult.
As all she does is surf the web, check mail, and occasionally print things out, Linux was the perfect solution for me.
I installed a Mandrake Distro, set up Evolution, and had the thing connect when it needed to. There was only 1 problem over 2 years - and that was when she somehow deleted a configuration file in Evolution. I sshed in, scped the missing file, changed the permissions so that it was read only, and there were never any other problems.
However, recently a new machine was purchased and my brother helped them set up Windows XP. He's now got tech support and I'm clean and free, as I've never used XP and only seen it run twice.
Personally, I consider life to be a right -- not a privilege of wealth.
Life is a right. Health care is a service, not a right. Unfortunately, it's a limited resource.
Physicians in several states are starting countersuits.
Surprisingly, the lawyers say the suits are without merit.
I'd actually love to see a small town that now has no medical care because physicians have been driven out due to high malpractice insurance start a class-action lawsuit against the ambulance chasers. After all, their actions have led to real-risk by real-people.
When the golden hour is the one hour drive to see the OB, something is wrong.
I totally understand how frustrating it must be to have someone screw up like that (my own grandmother got a terrible knee infection after a nurse screwed up and put her post op knee in a whirlpool). These types of cases *should* be taken to court or some sort of resolution sought.
Except that you can't PROVE that the whirlpool was the reason for the infection. ANY TIME SOMEONE CUTS YOUR SKIN, there is a risk of infection. Knee infections are KNOWN POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS from knee surgery.
No one can PROVE that the infection wasn't the statistical background vs poor interoperative procedure vs whirlpool. And many poor outcomes have similar confounding problems. It would be nigh impossible to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the whirlpool caused the infection. I guess that's why malpractice is in civil court and not criminal court.
I can't recall hearing of a large judgement against a doctor, hospital, or HMO recently where the case was minor.
No. But it still COSTS MONEY to defend the minor cases. That's the problem on the legal side.
If Joe Patient sues me because he had to have his ingrown toenail removed again, I now have to defend myself, even though the case is trivial. So my insurance blows 10K+ defending this trivial case, and I've got to pay more insurance.
When I was in Med School in Alabama, we had two lectures from Lawyers, one from a Plaintiff's lawyer and one from a Defense Lawyer. Both stated that in Alabama, only 20% of cases brought to trial in the state ended in Plantiff Verdicts. So, consider the amount of money spent defending the other 80% that went to court and the innumerable others that were settled out of court and it becomes easier to see the scope of the problem. It's one of the reasons that some in the medical field are pushing for a Medical Court or Medical Approval Board that deems whether a malpractice case can/should be pursued.
There is a disconnect in the system that makes this a very bad idea for physicians.
Health care is highly regulated in the U.S. Physicians can't control their overhead (malpractice insurance, front office staff) and can only control their income by seeing more patients an hour, as the prices are mostly fixed. Now, the portions of health care that aren't highly regulated are prescription drug costs and LAWSUITS.
Because the overhead is fixed, and price/visit is fixed (and has declined every year since 1992), the only way to make more money is to see more patients in the same amount of time. This exposes a physician to more risk because of number of people seen and less time/patient. Physicians are humans, and they will make mistakes, and it is extremely difficult to manage risk in an environment where the population is underserved, you're underpaid and overworked.
Now, add these mistakes to the legal system - a system that isn't regulated. A jury of 12 people too stupid to get out of jury duty hear arguments about complex medical cases. At this point, the physician is under extreme risk because, even if he practiced the standard of care and solid evidence based medicine, a good defense lawyer can win a jury over despite the facts/evidence: I.E. "Mrs. Jones expected to have a perfect child but because of the delay of delivery, the child has cerebral palsy and needs $$$ for health-care costs..."
Now, despite following standard of care, you as an INDIVIDUAL PHYSICIAN can lose everything you've made in one lawsuit. This leads to further escalations in health care costs, as test-ordering becomes the only mechanism a physician can minimize his risk. Plus, the system is designed to discourage quality improvement/assurance processes that are common in other areas of modern business, because the INDIVIDUAL PHYSICIAN IS PERSONABLY LIABLE for mistakes, even mistakes of the system.
Now, tell me, if every time you fscked up on your job you were liable to lose everything you ever made, would you point those things out to others? I assure you the answer is no.
It is unfortunate that the system has come to this, because most people are understanding and don't abuse the system. But the system is ripe for abuse, and it only takes a small number of people (think 1-2/500,000) getting windfall suits to send it out of control. That's less than SPAM responder rates, but with real negative consequences, not only for individual physicians, but communities that are losing access to health care because of upward spiraling malpractice rates.
I would like to see QI/QA implemented in medicine, but it's not going to happen until the risk for the individual practitioner is practically removed for reporting errors.
For further reading, I suggest this.
The Mandrake Club idea has always advertised itself as primarilly a way for people to give something back to Mandrake.
They have, have they?
In my Preferences page at MandrakeClub.com, I see this.
Club Benefits
* Access to MandrakeClub.com -- a place where your voice will be heard (Emphasis mine)
There is an article on MANDRAKE CLUB which states that this hasn't been the case for several months, if not a year.
Many MandrakeClub members have asked for private FTP servers, as they are PAYING CUSTOMERS of MandrakeClub. I don't mind if Mandrake uses torrents for truly free downloads, but when I'm paying a company to be a member of their club with purported benefits, a kludgy slow product delivery system really isn't a way to keep me happy. I'm not alone in this sentiment, and I'm sorry the parent got modded as a troll, but ever since 9.1 club members have been asking, nay begging, for private club-access only ftp servers for distro releases. This has been summarily ignored, and instead a kludgy torrent system is used to further piss off loyal customers.
So now they switch to Bittorrent, and now you'll have to wait at most a few days to get your ISOs, and they save serious cash.
What you meant to say was that now they switch to Bittorrent, and now their loyal paying customers are not renewing, and they lose cash.
I've given Mandrake more money in the last two years that I've given Microsoft in the past 5 because I truly believe they have one of the best distros, and I want to contribute to the success of the distro. However, when I'm mistreated and lied to by the management of the company, I'm simply not going to give them any more money. And I'm not alone in this feeling. It's truly a shame, because 2 years ago when they were going belly up, I joined to help them survive. And they have, for now. But this past year (since Deno left. FWIW, Deno was awesome) has given me insight into why they likely got into the situation in the first place, and why they're likely to end up back there.
In the mean time, I'm going to look for a different place to financially support Linux in general and perhaps a distribution in particular.
I'm a club member for two years, and my membership will expire today. I will not renew.
Several Years Ago Mandrake was in financial difficulties because of poor management. They created MandrakeClub to offer those who liked the distribution an opportunity to help support the company with the kickback of having the voices of the paying customer heard. For at least the past 9 months, this has not been the case. MandrakeClub has become a representativeless moneyhole where loyal paying customers are given the shaft. The idea of RPM voting was a good one, but the most popular RPMs were never packaged. In what was to become a common theme, paying customers were being totally ignored.
Today holds the ultimate example of why I won't be renewing. Club members have been asking for ftp servers as the bittorrent releases don't work. Well, once again they've decided not to listen ot their loyal paying customers and released the 10.0 distro to the Club members - via bittorrent. This is a horridly slow innefective solution. For paying customers, the proper thing to do is offer password protected FTP servers.
Now I know that lots of people think bittorrent is a great idea, but it isn't. Only Club members get the torrents, and right now it looks like it might get downloaded here by next week. The club simply isn't big enough to support bittorrent releases. Bittorrent releases would be a good idea for the non-paying public, but it is a most crappy way to treat loyal paying customers. I'm currently getting less than 10kB/s down using bittorrent.
In 6 months, when Mandrake is again scraping the bottom of the financial barrier, I will not shed a tear for their demise. The developers are good, but the management is horrible. Anyone who treats loyal paying customers as crappily as Mandrake does ends up in the annals of history as yet another failed company.
And them's the facts.
You can emerge binary only packages in Gentoo. emerge --usepkg gets you the binary only.
If you still want to compile everything, get distcc and let your beefier hardware do the trick.
Learn how to arc weld and start your own Discovery/TLC show - Monster Haxxor!!
256 is the Huntsville area, so it is possible that whomever has it gets the irony.
specifically, if you want Serial ATA, stay away from boards with the Silicon Image 3x12 SATA controller. IT IS NOT LINUX COMPATIBLE under modern distros. Silicon Image advertises it as LINUX COMPATIBLE, as they have binary only drivers for Redhat 8.
I was dissapointed that by Gigabyte K8A Pro motherboard had this chip on it and it DOES NOT WORK under Linux.
But otherwise, the platform is nice.