If I had something I wanted to move over the internet, without anybody being able to read it, I would use a one-time pad or some other nearly-as-secure encryption. It's so easy to do.
This program will only catch the foolhardy, and will could be used for nefarious purposes against (mostly) law-abiding American citizens.
So it is a bad idea.
Remember, as Americans, we have the right, and duty, to inform our congress-critters and other representatives when we think the government is heading the wrong way. Send a fax to your Senators and Representatives today. Fax their local office and their Washington office.
Clearly you cannot tell how evil PayPal is if you never used them. In fact, many of their users will never know how evil they are, especially if you only use PayPal to purchase and not to sell.
I will never, ever, couple my checking account to PayPal, which is what they really want you to do. Pay them with a credit card, and you have some protection. Pay them with a direct debit from your checking account, and you will have no recourse whatsoever, you might as well set fire or flush your money away...
If you don't like how your mega-corporation former-baby-bell ISP is implementing QOS to favor themselves (Verizon) or others who pay more (BellSouth) then vote with your feet, and get another ISP.
I would not use Verizon broadband because they block port 80 access.
Microsoft has gone on record to state that Windows XP SP3 will not ba available until after Vista ships. So, there will be quite a bit of time that there are known, unpatched security weaknesses in Windows XP...
Now, I will go out on a limb, and say that Microsoft is not Evil. They are greedy bastards and abuse there near monopoly position. They need the revenue from selling a lot of expensive Vista licenses, and will do what they need to get that revenue, regardless of the technical superiority and improved security (or not) of Windows Vista
Watercooling a PC is a great idea; but only watercooling the CPU is just plain crap.
In the photos in the linked article, there were enormous heat sinks and fans on the graphics cards, and still a case fan, and no doubt a power supply fan.
I don't want to take the heat simply out of my computer case, but completely out of my house. I have 4 computers in my office and 2 more in my lab, and my air conditioning bills are truly heinous, not to mention that even with the quietest case and CPU fans I could find, the noise is still a problem.
I would really like to see a complete water cooled setup, with heat exchangers on the GPU, on the power supply, whatever other hot parts on the main board, disk drives, and (of course) the CPU. Then I could plumb every bit of it to a heat exhanger with a big loud fan outside...
Curiously, IBM water cooled mainframes for a long time, then stopped when they started making CMOS-based mainframes. Now they are offering water cooling accessories for blade racks.
Watercooling a PC is a great idea; but only watercooling the CPU is just plain crap.
In the photos in the linked article, there were enormous heat sinks and fans on the graphics cards, and still a case fan, and no doubt a power supply fan.
I don't want to take the heat simply out of my computer case, but completely out of my house. I have 4 computers in my office and 2 more in my lab, and my air conditioning bills are truly heinous, not to mention that even with the quietest case and CPU fans I could find, the noise is still a problem.
I would really like to see a complete water cooled setup, with heat exchangers on the GPU, on the power supply, whatever other hot parts on the main board, disk drives, and (of course) the CPU. Then I could plumb every bit of it to a heat exhanger with a big loud fan outside...
Curiously, IBM water cooled mainframes for a long time, then stopped when they started making CMOS-based mainframes. Now they are offering water cooling accessories for blade racks.
Make sure that you and your staff remember to have a life outside of work. It is generally a lot easier to get a new job than a new family, or new friends.
Make sure that you and your staff are always growing new, marketable skills. Don't get you or your staff stuck in a technical dead end. Always be thinking about and preparing for the next gig.
Ultimately, remember that working enables lifestyle, not the other way around. Companies and their management will work you and your staff to death to line their own pockets at your expense if you will let them.
Live for yourself, not for someone else's business.
Obviously, this all goes out the window if you are self employed.
for a guy with no money he certainly has two or three computers, and what looks to be a pretty nice apartment. Not to mention money for web hosting of a pretty silly topic.
Fedex is likely most pissed because that packing material costs them money, and Mr. Avila has eggregiously helped himself to Fedex's property, which is intended for their customers to use to ship packages.
Never mind fiber and digital cable, the future is in WiMax (802.16e) and 802.20. That will more likely become the "last mile" delivery media of choice, and the BPL providers and stockholders will all go hungry.
802.16e is getting deployed now and 802.20 (the so-called "Mobile-Fi") is coming real soon now.
"worlds fastest morse coder"? nope. Not hardly. Just an experienced operator sending at less than 30 words a minute. Fast for morse code is 60 WPM.
"very expensive morse equipment"? uhhh, no. Not really. They used a cheap "Bencher" paddle, $100, not any "$200 morsing bug"...
Morse is the first and oldest digital transmission mode that I am aware of. The cell phone text message is also ultimately a digital transmission mode.
Personally, I hate text messaging because of the clunky input method. The idea that perhaps there is a better way to enter text into a phone is intrigueing. Also the idea that the phone could output the text message as morse code is interesting.
How many people are aware that when their Nokia sends "dah dah dah dit dit dah dah dah" it is in fact sending "SMS" in morse to indicate Short Message System? I hear it all the time, and nobody knows why it beeps like that!
Apple needs to decide if they are a hardware company or a software company.
Almost all the other totally proprietary companies (with proprietary OSs on proprietary hardware) are dead and gone.
I think that the success of the OS/X platform has been because the OS simply works. The margins in hardware are so, so thin.
The only thing that I can see that would save Apple from Intel-induced death syndrome would be to totally adopt the Intel PC platform and get out of the PC hardware business.
Otherwise, they will follow many formerly great computer companies to be a footnote in computing history.
Yep. DECs infamously inept marketing. They had the best engineered solutions that money could buy (a lot of money) but they could not sell to save themselves. So sad.
VMS keeps coming back, and appearing on Slashdot like a bad penny. The IA64 has breathed new life into this OS, which is the most secure and stable that I have had the pleasure to use. VMS had a C2 security rating out of the box in 1990 or so, but what this article does not mention is that a variant version (SEVMS) carried a full B2 rating., which is really something.
Mark who? I don't know his name. I worked for DEC VMS Engineering in the VAX and Alpha days, who is this guy?
This article makes it seem like the idea of building unix apps on VMS is a new thing. It's not. VMS Posix was available in 1992, and many Unix/C apps would just compile and run. It was very cool.
I love my iPod and iTunes rules. But I won't use Apple's music store.
Why? Because I don't want my freedom to use my electronic music files abridged. Apple's format won't let me transfer the files to a new computer more than a few times, without going through a lot of contortions... I can't play music purchased from the iTunes Music Store on my Linux boxen, or on set top boxes. There is no freedom in AAC, only lock-in to Apple's players.
So I choose to buy my music the old fashioned way: on CDs. Then I rip them to MP3 (with CDex) and I can use the music on any player I like, including iTunes and my iPod. The CDs conveniently play in consumer electronic devices, and in my car.
This is what Mr. Slattery should do. Nobody has tied him up and kept him from ordering CDs from CDNow or goint to Walmart or whatever. The music is available elsewhere. He needs to get a grip.
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If I had something I wanted to move over the internet, without anybody being able to read it, I would use a one-time pad or some other nearly-as-secure encryption. It's so easy to do.
This program will only catch the foolhardy, and will could be used for nefarious purposes against (mostly) law-abiding American citizens.
So it is a bad idea.
Remember, as Americans, we have the right, and duty, to inform our congress-critters and other representatives when we think the government is heading the wrong way. Send a fax to your Senators and Representatives today. Fax their local office and their Washington office.
Clearly you cannot tell how evil PayPal is if you never used them. In fact, many of their users will never know how evil they are, especially if you only use PayPal to purchase and not to sell.
I will never, ever, couple my checking account to PayPal, which is what they really want you to do. Pay them with a credit card, and you have some protection. Pay them with a direct debit from your checking account, and you will have no recourse whatsoever, you might as well set fire or flush your money away...
If you don't like how your mega-corporation former-baby-bell ISP is implementing QOS to favor themselves (Verizon) or others who pay more (BellSouth) then vote with your feet, and get another ISP.
I would not use Verizon broadband because they block port 80 access.
Microsoft has gone on record to state that Windows XP SP3 will not ba available until after Vista ships. So, there will be quite a bit of time that there are known, unpatched security weaknesses in Windows XP...
Now, I will go out on a limb, and say that Microsoft is not Evil. They are greedy bastards and abuse there near monopoly position. They need the revenue from selling a lot of expensive Vista licenses, and will do what they need to get that revenue, regardless of the technical superiority and improved security (or not) of Windows Vista
Asterisk. It's the next big thing. Maddog thinks so. And I think he's right.
Watercooling a PC is a great idea; but only watercooling the CPU is just plain crap.
In the photos in the linked article, there were enormous heat sinks and fans on the graphics cards, and still a case fan, and no doubt a power supply fan.
I don't want to take the heat simply out of my computer case, but completely out of my house. I have 4 computers in my office and 2 more in my lab, and my air conditioning bills are truly heinous, not to mention that even with the quietest case and CPU fans I could find, the noise is still a problem.
I would really like to see a complete water cooled setup, with heat exchangers on the GPU, on the power supply, whatever other hot parts on the main board, disk drives, and (of course) the CPU. Then I could plumb every bit of it to a heat exhanger with a big loud fan outside...
Curiously, IBM water cooled mainframes for a long time, then stopped when they started making CMOS-based mainframes. Now they are offering water cooling accessories for blade racks.
Watercooling a PC is a great idea; but only watercooling the CPU is just plain crap.
In the photos in the linked article, there were enormous heat sinks and fans on the graphics cards, and still a case fan, and no doubt a power supply fan.
I don't want to take the heat simply out of my computer case, but completely out of my house. I have 4 computers in my office and 2 more in my lab, and my air conditioning bills are truly heinous, not to mention that even with the quietest case and CPU fans I could find, the noise is still a problem.
I would really like to see a complete water cooled setup, with heat exchangers on the GPU, on the power supply, whatever other hot parts on the main board, disk drives, and (of course) the CPU. Then I could plumb every bit of it to a heat exhanger with a big loud fan outside...
Curiously, IBM water cooled mainframes for a long time, then stopped when they started making CMOS-based mainframes. Now they are offering water cooling accessories for blade racks.
This is just another reason why amateur radio still matters.
I think we should take up a collection and buy one of these for DVDJon!
Never mind what is best for the company.
They don't give shit #1 about you or your staff.
Make sure that you and your staff remember to have a life outside of work. It is generally a lot easier to get a new job than a new family, or new friends.
Make sure that you and your staff are always growing new, marketable skills. Don't get you or your staff stuck in a technical dead end. Always be thinking about and preparing for the next gig.
Ultimately, remember that working enables lifestyle, not the other way around. Companies and their management will work you and your staff to death to line their own pockets at your expense if you will let them.
Live for yourself, not for someone else's business.
Obviously, this all goes out the window if you are self employed.
Talk about borked. ouch.
Princess Leia: The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
More people should spend some time nerding out with Asterisk and other free VOIP technology. It's way cool.
for a guy with no money he certainly has two or three computers, and what looks to be a pretty nice apartment. Not to mention money for web hosting of a pretty silly topic.
Fedex is likely most pissed because that packing material costs them money, and Mr. Avila has eggregiously helped himself to Fedex's property, which is intended for their customers to use to ship packages.
And "Cairo" will be out by 1996.
We've heard this story before.
"European invented HTTP"
Since when is Tim Berners-Lee a European?
The man is British!
802.16e is getting deployed now and 802.20 (the so-called "Mobile-Fi") is coming real soon now.
Huh?
"worlds fastest morse coder"? nope. Not hardly. Just an experienced operator sending at less than 30 words a minute. Fast for morse code is 60 WPM.
"very expensive morse equipment"? uhhh, no. Not really. They used a cheap "Bencher" paddle, $100, not any "$200 morsing bug"...
Morse is the first and oldest digital transmission mode that I am aware of. The cell phone text message is also ultimately a digital transmission mode.
Personally, I hate text messaging because of the clunky input method. The idea that perhaps there is a better way to enter text into a phone is intrigueing. Also the idea that the phone could output the text message as morse code is interesting.
How many people are aware that when their Nokia sends "dah dah dah dit dit dah dah dah" it is in fact sending "SMS" in morse to indicate Short Message System? I hear it all the time, and nobody knows why it beeps like that!
Apple needs to decide if they are a hardware company or a software company.
Almost all the other totally proprietary companies (with proprietary OSs on proprietary hardware) are dead and gone.
I think that the success of the OS/X platform has been because the OS simply works. The margins in hardware are so, so thin.
The only thing that I can see that would save Apple from Intel-induced death syndrome would be to totally adopt the Intel PC platform and get out of the PC hardware business.
Otherwise, they will follow many formerly great computer companies to be a footnote in computing history.
Ouch.
jwz is a pretentious whiner, that's who he is.
Oh my God! jwz is switching to OS/X.
Who gives a shit?
This sounds a lot like Ham Radio direction finding contests. In fact, I bet a lot of the same kind of DFing technology will be used.
Look here for information about direction finding, transmitter hunting, and radio-orienteering as used by hams:
http://members.aol.com/homingin/
Yep. DECs infamously inept marketing. They had the best engineered solutions that money could buy (a lot of money) but they could not sell to save themselves. So sad.
Mark who? I don't know his name. I worked for DEC VMS Engineering in the VAX and Alpha days, who is this guy?
This article makes it seem like the idea of building unix apps on VMS is a new thing. It's not. VMS Posix was available in 1992, and many Unix/C apps would just compile and run. It was very cool.
The dinosaur is aging very well.
Heck, why stop with reformatting the user's disk... Why not install FreeBSD and complete the favor!
Why? Because I don't want my freedom to use my electronic music files abridged. Apple's format won't let me transfer the files to a new computer more than a few times, without going through a lot of contortions... I can't play music purchased from the iTunes Music Store on my Linux boxen, or on set top boxes. There is no freedom in AAC, only lock-in to Apple's players.
So I choose to buy my music the old fashioned way: on CDs. Then I rip them to MP3 (with CDex) and I can use the music on any player I like, including iTunes and my iPod. The CDs conveniently play in consumer electronic devices, and in my car.
This is what Mr. Slattery should do. Nobody has tied him up and kept him from ordering CDs from CDNow or goint to Walmart or whatever. The music is available elsewhere. He needs to get a grip.