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I think it would be really cool to do this with the GPD-guided missiles that we're using against the Taliban (note I said Taliban and *not* Muslims). I would love to see their path from whatever launched them, avoiding enemy SAMs, hills/mountians, until the reached their target. That would be pretty neat I think.
...will be a G4. The iBook is a good machine, don't get me wrong. A buddy of mine just bought it for a cheap OS X machine. When I have the $$ to spend on a new machine, I'll first get a kicking G4 desktop and then get a G4 laptop or better (might have the G5 by that time). Why buy something that's not the latest greatest? I've always had this theory on buying computers (it works better on people mostly unlike us that can't upgrade their own computer). Buy the most RAM you can afford, even if the quantity seems very unreasonable at the time because you'll need it down the road. Buy the fastest machine you can afford (or get the one just out of your budget and wait a month to save up the extra $$ to get it) because it would be the fastest for long. That little bit of speed down the road may be a lot in your mind and make you feel better about your purchase. That said, an iBook is a good machine. It wouldn't be my first pick but it's still a damned good machine. I thought the Cube was too. Guess it didn't make the cuts. My $.02.
I wonder how something such as this would fair in Kansas weather. I doubt it could stand too severe of a straight line wind let alone a tornado. It would have to be a very dry climate to like Arizona. Even with all of the water resistant additives and materials it still couldn't be that water proof. Interesting though.
What you don't know is that there was supposedly a big drug bust very near to that area (ie, within a mile) a while back. I used to live in Manhattan and Wamego is on the edge of Manhattan. I used to drive to the middle of Wamego and north a mile and back west 1/2 mile to my boss's nursery when I did some landscaping work. Pot indeed.
I know exactly where this is! This is so cool. Wamego is on the east side of Manhattan, KS, better known for Kansas State University where I used to work and school at. This is so cool! I never even knew it was there. There was a big drug bust right around that area a while back IIRC. A buddy of mine said it was in the paper up there.
Put it this way: do you think Experian should be able to publish anything they want about a person regardless of accuracy?
I don't want to waste my energy retyping what I put into a previous post so I'm going to provide the link to it so you can go read it. In short I believe MAPS is well within their right to publish their opinion. It is well within my right to take their opinion for gospel. We are all entitled to our opinion.
DNS Blacklists aren't nearly abusive as my personal Sendmail access lists. Once a domains goes on it, there's no way off. I briefly investigate the spam. If an actual domain is associated with it, then that domain just earned a permanent REJECT entry. Simple really.
I can't see how this can be done. The way I see it, it's a violation of freedom of speech. If I say that I have a reason to not want to accept mail from spammer.com and I publicly state that, then that's my constitutional right. Really that's all they are doing. They are publicly saying that they won't accept mail from spammer.com or his netblock and they're making that known publicly. The method in which they let the public gain access to their list of people that thet won't accept email from is by DNS. If another said person of the public happens to decide that they trust my opinion on who I will not accept mail from and use my list of domains and netblocks as their own, then they are excercising their freedom to express themselves. I'm not forcing them to do it. They trust my opinion and that's that. To me it's really that simple. It's nothing more than a car magazine rating a given year's new models and expressing their opinions. If a writer for Car Magazine says that he personally doesn't like car A because it doesn't come in pink and I as a consumer have always based my purchasing decisions off of what that writer believes, then is he at fault just like MAPS? No, the writer isn't. He expressed his opinion and I decided to trust his opinion. If a buddy of mine tells me that he received spam from newspammer.com and I either a) trust what he told me or b) he proves to me that they spammed him (with the message and headers) than there's no reason why I can't trust his opinion and add newspammer.com to my list as well. If I decide to add a way for a spammer to have his domain removed from my personal list then there isn't any reason why I can't. If I say they first have to wear a baby blue tutu and cowboy boots and run through the streets of Dallas before I'll remove them, that's well within my right. After all the list is mine, not there's. I'm entitled to my opinion. Does anyone else see it as simply put as I do? To me it's just that simple.
I'll tell you one more thing that's very simple. Experian has earned a very simple and very permanent REJECT entry in my Sendmail access lists. Simple.
They forgot an important one that I know has nipped all of us at one time or another. An ex-girlfriend (boyfriend for you female admins out there) knowing your root password. Now that's a pain in the ass! You dump her for one reason or another and take your copies of Starcraft and Dialo with you when you go and you nuke her e-mail account on your co-lo. She gets pissed and tells her HaX0R brother or new boyfriend your root password and he put a kiddie pron site up on your server or bastardizes your computer. Royal pain in the ass. Moral of the story: Men, get computer-illiterate women.
I wish I could figure out how to disable buttons with javascript. See I'm a Neomail user. It's a great webmail app. It has its own set of navigation buttons (images with links) to navigate the site with. Using the Back, Forward, Reload, and other common buttons breaks the session, forcing the user to see an error and login again. Instead of directing the user straight to the neomail.pl script, I wrote a simple HTML page with news, help, etc.. on it and POST to that script. Much easier to work with and change. I need to find some way to spawn a new window (or change the existing parent) to either disable the buttons or disable that entire button bar. Any ideas? Kudos to the FTC for their actions. I wouldn't mind having his source though.;)
The wording has me mind confused a bit. Would this affect, say, road-side billboards? I'm not asking to see it (opting-in). It's just there. I guess the use of the "direct marketing" phrase has my mind a little fuzzy. Do I have to make a request to see all advertising? Do I have to request to see a TV commercial in that case? Odd.
There's a big debate on the news.admin.new-abuse.email newsgroup about Spews and their policies about not allowing contact from blocked people except for a newsgroup which isn't their own, NANAE. I have mixed views on it. Frankly, as far as I'm concerned, not accepting mail to abuse@ and postmaster@ for a given domain is a blatent violation of the RFCs. I reject around 32k pieces of spam a week. Abuse@ and postmaster@ always accept mail, even from blocked domains. There should be some reliable way of contacting these people if I get listed. My $.02 anyhow. Night all.
University of Kansas. Might have thought that it was a good abreviation at the time. A similar one is Southwestern College in Winfield, KS. ksu.edu just has a good flow to it. k-state.edu doesn't. Someone told me that the pencil pusher that decided to make the change was to set us apart from Kent State University. k-state.edu. I fail to see the difference. We do however refer to ourselves as K-State Wildcats. PR thing I supposed.
EDU rules allow a 4-year university to have only one permanent.edu domain. You might know of a few universities that have more than one. Kansas State University is one of those. Somebody got the brilliant idea to move from ksu.edu to k-state.edu. (Whatever dumbass thought of that should be shot, but that's just my opinion.) They were allowed to have two for a transitional period. Fortunately the plan died (last I heard) and KSU will stick with ksu.edu. That's supposed to be the only time a university can have more than one.edu domain--for a transition period.
...the part about single mode fiber. Within a typical building it's just plain overkill. Multi mode is cheaper, easier to work with, and the transceivers on either end cost so much less than single mode transceivers that it ain't even funny. Multi mode is the safe way to go. String fiber between the closets for sure. The original poster didn't describe their building much (at all?) IIRC. One closet per floor as long as that closet can reach every possible corner of the floor at around 75m. Some push it to the limit, some say 50m. Just be aware of your length; that's the cable tray path, not as the crow flies. Don't forget to allow for jack to CPU cable and patch length too. If you're going to have more than one closet, pick a closet to be the central closet. Say you have 4 floors to wire, 2 closets per floor. String a couple pair of MMF from each closet down to the 1st floor closet and call that your main. Do you best to only have two layers within your building too, if possible. 100FX will probably be more than enough for your infrastructure. GigE is ok too. It costs more though and you have much greater distance limitations. 100FX can run 6,561ft over MMF. GigE can only run 1,443ft over 62.5 micron MMF (the most common) or 1,804ft over 50 micron MMF (double check that last figure). You can always trunk two 100FX lines together. Hell with a wavelength devision multiplexor you can double your bandwidth over the same pair of MMF. Draw a good plan, measure everything, use fiber for your infrastructure, 10/100 to all access ports, put the server got a given area closer to the users it serves, AND buy managed devices. I find the last one to be very important. You can buy Cisco if you want. It's up to you. We're a Cabletron shop (Enterasys now) and are doing fine. I'm not fond of 3Com personally but I know some love them. I really don't like HP. Your choice though. With a managable device, you can monitor and graph bandwidth usage as well as do diagnostics (sniffing via port mirroring) much easier.
and if you're an IEEE member you get an additional 5% discount.:) I have edition 1 already. I ordered Hacking Linux Exposed and Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions edition 2 earlier this week. Excellent books.
This has already been done. IIRC open heart surgery was preformed on a guy in an Oriental country (I forget which) over the Internet2 by someone at KUMC (I believe it was KUMC). I saw that on Discovery this Spring. I don't have details for you. Hopefully that will be enough to find it yourself.
I remember reading something about someone doing this back when CodeRed II came out. He had a simple CGI to submit a shutdown command to the inquiring machine. Cool.:)
I agree. We shouldn't stop our lives. If we do, they win. That's the message that Congress and the House was trying to get across to us on the night of the incidents. Still I can see the point in postponing some of these events. What the terrorists did was very symbolic. It was an attack on America and our ideals. What better thing to attack than a major league baseball game. That's truly American. I can understand Apple's concerns with the Paris Expo. We simply can't be sure that France will take all possible security precautions to protect this event. France hasn't been attacked yet so their guard may be down or not as high as our's is right now. Plus all aircraft were grounded. If half the people can't get to their destination for their event (ball game, expo, conference, whatever) how can the people having the conference justify going through with it. Now that things a more under control I think we should all go out and have a huge public showing of support. Fireworks and singing sounds good.
That's right. The numbers prove that it's safer. Doesn't mean that people will believe it though. Air travel accidents get promoted by the media to an extreme point. People typically believe what the media tells them. If they tell them that violence in schools is increasing, they'll believe them even though the numbers prove that to be an absolute crock of shit--it's been decreasing for decades. A car wreck on the news is nothing; people don't even bat an eye. A plane crash is big news; people sit up and take notice then. Yes, air travel is safer in reality. It's not safer in the minds of the majority people though.
but as much as I'd like to see things continue like normal, it is probably wise to cancel events such as these for a short time. Air travel has suffered a horrific blow that has made many unsure of the safety of air travel. I hate to see the world shut down over this but some things should be put on hold for a little while.
Blood also has a short shelf-life. Sure it can be seperated and frozen but that takes much more resources to do. Another things is that very little blood has been used so far in this rescue. There have been very few people pulled from the rubble. No nearly as many as we'd like there to be. The blood isn't getting used very fast.
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I think it would be really cool to do this with the GPD-guided missiles that we're using against the Taliban (note I said Taliban and *not* Muslims). I would love to see their path from whatever launched them, avoiding enemy SAMs, hills/mountians, until the reached their target. That would be pretty neat I think.
...will be a G4. The iBook is a good machine, don't get me wrong. A buddy of mine just bought it for a cheap OS X machine. When I have the $$ to spend on a new machine, I'll first get a kicking G4 desktop and then get a G4 laptop or better (might have the G5 by that time). Why buy something that's not the latest greatest? I've always had this theory on buying computers (it works better on people mostly unlike us that can't upgrade their own computer). Buy the most RAM you can afford, even if the quantity seems very unreasonable at the time because you'll need it down the road. Buy the fastest machine you can afford (or get the one just out of your budget and wait a month to save up the extra $$ to get it) because it would be the fastest for long. That little bit of speed down the road may be a lot in your mind and make you feel better about your purchase. That said, an iBook is a good machine. It wouldn't be my first pick but it's still a damned good machine. I thought the Cube was too. Guess it didn't make the cuts. My $.02.
I would have figured Seattle of Hawaii myself. I doubt a Columbian drug lord would want one of these in the rain forest. ;)
I wonder how something such as this would fair in Kansas weather. I doubt it could stand too severe of a straight line wind let alone a tornado. It would have to be a very dry climate to like Arizona. Even with all of the water resistant additives and materials it still couldn't be that water proof. Interesting though.
What you don't know is that there was supposedly a big drug bust very near to that area (ie, within a mile) a while back. I used to live in Manhattan and Wamego is on the edge of Manhattan. I used to drive to the middle of Wamego and north a mile and back west 1/2 mile to my boss's nursery when I did some landscaping work. Pot indeed.
I know exactly where this is! This is so cool. Wamego is on the east side of Manhattan, KS, better known for Kansas State University where I used to work and school at. This is so cool! I never even knew it was there. There was a big drug bust right around that area a while back IIRC. A buddy of mine said it was in the paper up there.
I don't want to waste my energy retyping what I put into a previous post so I'm going to provide the link to it so you can go read it. In short I believe MAPS is well within their right to publish their opinion. It is well within my right to take their opinion for gospel. We are all entitled to our opinion.
DNS Blacklists aren't nearly abusive as my personal Sendmail access lists. Once a domains goes on it, there's no way off. I briefly investigate the spam. If an actual domain is associated with it, then that domain just earned a permanent REJECT entry. Simple really.
I'll tell you one more thing that's very simple. Experian has earned a very simple and very permanent REJECT entry in my Sendmail access lists. Simple.
They forgot an important one that I know has nipped all of us at one time or another. An ex-girlfriend (boyfriend for you female admins out there) knowing your root password. Now that's a pain in the ass! You dump her for one reason or another and take your copies of Starcraft and Dialo with you when you go and you nuke her e-mail account on your co-lo. She gets pissed and tells her HaX0R brother or new boyfriend your root password and he put a kiddie pron site up on your server or bastardizes your computer. Royal pain in the ass. Moral of the story: Men, get computer-illiterate women.
I wish I could figure out how to disable buttons with javascript. See I'm a Neomail user. It's a great webmail app. It has its own set of navigation buttons (images with links) to navigate the site with. Using the Back, Forward, Reload, and other common buttons breaks the session, forcing the user to see an error and login again. Instead of directing the user straight to the neomail.pl script, I wrote a simple HTML page with news, help, etc.. on it and POST to that script. Much easier to work with and change. I need to find some way to spawn a new window (or change the existing parent) to either disable the buttons or disable that entire button bar. Any ideas? Kudos to the FTC for their actions. I wouldn't mind having his source though. ;)
The wording has me mind confused a bit. Would this affect, say, road-side billboards? I'm not asking to see it (opting-in). It's just there. I guess the use of the "direct marketing" phrase has my mind a little fuzzy. Do I have to make a request to see all advertising? Do I have to request to see a TV commercial in that case? Odd.
There's a big debate on the news.admin.new-abuse.email newsgroup about Spews and their policies about not allowing contact from blocked people except for a newsgroup which isn't their own, NANAE. I have mixed views on it. Frankly, as far as I'm concerned, not accepting mail to abuse@ and postmaster@ for a given domain is a blatent violation of the RFCs. I reject around 32k pieces of spam a week. Abuse@ and postmaster@ always accept mail, even from blocked domains. There should be some reliable way of contacting these people if I get listed. My $.02 anyhow. Night all.
University of Kansas. Might have thought that it was a good abreviation at the time. A similar one is Southwestern College in Winfield, KS. ksu.edu just has a good flow to it. k-state.edu doesn't. Someone told me that the pencil pusher that decided to make the change was to set us apart from Kent State University. k-state.edu. I fail to see the difference. We do however refer to ourselves as K-State Wildcats. PR thing I supposed.
Need I remind you of the domains www.whitehouse.gov and www.whitehouse.com?
EDU rules allow a 4-year university to have only one permanent .edu domain. You might know of a few universities that have more than one. Kansas State University is one of those. Somebody got the brilliant idea to move from ksu.edu to k-state.edu. (Whatever dumbass thought of that should be shot, but that's just my opinion.) They were allowed to have two for a transitional period. Fortunately the plan died (last I heard) and KSU will stick with ksu.edu. That's supposed to be the only time a university can have more than one .edu domain--for a transition period.
...the part about single mode fiber. Within a typical building it's just plain overkill. Multi mode is cheaper, easier to work with, and the transceivers on either end cost so much less than single mode transceivers that it ain't even funny. Multi mode is the safe way to go. String fiber between the closets for sure. The original poster didn't describe their building much (at all?) IIRC. One closet per floor as long as that closet can reach every possible corner of the floor at around 75m. Some push it to the limit, some say 50m. Just be aware of your length; that's the cable tray path, not as the crow flies. Don't forget to allow for jack to CPU cable and patch length too. If you're going to have more than one closet, pick a closet to be the central closet. Say you have 4 floors to wire, 2 closets per floor. String a couple pair of MMF from each closet down to the 1st floor closet and call that your main. Do you best to only have two layers within your building too, if possible. 100FX will probably be more than enough for your infrastructure. GigE is ok too. It costs more though and you have much greater distance limitations. 100FX can run 6,561ft over MMF. GigE can only run 1,443ft over 62.5 micron MMF (the most common) or 1,804ft over 50 micron MMF (double check that last figure). You can always trunk two 100FX lines together. Hell with a wavelength devision multiplexor you can double your bandwidth over the same pair of MMF. Draw a good plan, measure everything, use fiber for your infrastructure, 10/100 to all access ports, put the server got a given area closer to the users it serves, AND buy managed devices. I find the last one to be very important. You can buy Cisco if you want. It's up to you. We're a Cabletron shop (Enterasys now) and are doing fine. I'm not fond of 3Com personally but I know some love them. I really don't like HP. Your choice though. With a managable device, you can monitor and graph bandwidth usage as well as do diagnostics (sniffing via port mirroring) much easier.
Possibly a Caddy SUV. 'nough said. :)
and if you're an IEEE member you get an additional 5% discount. :) I have edition 1 already. I ordered Hacking Linux Exposed and Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions edition 2 earlier this week. Excellent books.
This has already been done. IIRC open heart surgery was preformed on a guy in an Oriental country (I forget which) over the Internet2 by someone at KUMC (I believe it was KUMC). I saw that on Discovery this Spring. I don't have details for you. Hopefully that will be enough to find it yourself.
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I remember reading something about someone doing this back when CodeRed II came out. He had a simple CGI to submit a shutdown command to the inquiring machine. Cool. :)
I agree. We shouldn't stop our lives. If we do, they win. That's the message that Congress and the House was trying to get across to us on the night of the incidents. Still I can see the point in postponing some of these events. What the terrorists did was very symbolic. It was an attack on America and our ideals. What better thing to attack than a major league baseball game. That's truly American. I can understand Apple's concerns with the Paris Expo. We simply can't be sure that France will take all possible security precautions to protect this event. France hasn't been attacked yet so their guard may be down or not as high as our's is right now. Plus all aircraft were grounded. If half the people can't get to their destination for their event (ball game, expo, conference, whatever) how can the people having the conference justify going through with it. Now that things a more under control I think we should all go out and have a huge public showing of support. Fireworks and singing sounds good.
That's right. The numbers prove that it's safer. Doesn't mean that people will believe it though. Air travel accidents get promoted by the media to an extreme point. People typically believe what the media tells them. If they tell them that violence in schools is increasing, they'll believe them even though the numbers prove that to be an absolute crock of shit--it's been decreasing for decades. A car wreck on the news is nothing; people don't even bat an eye. A plane crash is big news; people sit up and take notice then. Yes, air travel is safer in reality. It's not safer in the minds of the majority people though.
but as much as I'd like to see things continue like normal, it is probably wise to cancel events such as these for a short time. Air travel has suffered a horrific blow that has made many unsure of the safety of air travel. I hate to see the world shut down over this but some things should be put on hold for a little while.
Blood also has a short shelf-life. Sure it can be seperated and frozen but that takes much more resources to do. Another things is that very little blood has been used so far in this rescue. There have been very few people pulled from the rubble. No nearly as many as we'd like there to be. The blood isn't getting used very fast.