I live in Tucson, AZ. 15 minutes north of here is a huge national forest and about every 3 or 4 years, someone's kid gets lost up there.
It's not hard. You walk about a block and you are totally out of sight in the rocks, trees, & brush.
Usually, they find the kid, sometimes in an hour, sometimes in a day, sometimes in a week, sometimes a couple of years later. This is a bad thing, there's not really much water up there.
I personally think this watch is a great idea for such trips. If you could rent them at the ranger station at the base of the mountain, that would do wonders for income- they've recently added a $10/trip, $20/year pass fees for the range. I'd much rather see them taking in income for a tangible service the charge for wanting to get out of the city.
the earth's liquid core might provide an answer.
It has been drifting nothward for decades.
Interesting. So if the liquid core continues to flow northward, and north shifts to the west, that might cause some changes in the shifting of earths plates.
Perhaps I'll live to see California separate from the US.
The only people who need Linux to run on old hardware are the Luddites who refuse to part with their old equipment, and they are nothing but an albatross around the neck of the Linux community
LOL! Yeah, those bastards at NASA have been nothing but a pain in the butt since day one. If it weren't for all the code they keep sending us we'd drop them in a heartbeat..
It is purely incidental that Linux performs well regardless of the hardware it is run on.
And here I thought it was because that is what linux was written for- it started as a programming experiment to learn the 386 bios, and that support was never dropped.
The only people who need Linux to run on old hardware are the Luddites who refuse to part with their old equipment, and they are nothing but an albatross around the neck of the Linux community.
And here I am trying to decide if I should re-deploy the print server (a p166) in the living room.
I just finished building a linux box for the living room stereo to NFS mount to my MP3 archive for web-based access. It's prefect for my needs, and I can pick songs with anything wireless with a browser within range of the access point.
The reason I'd like something smaller is it would require less fans & less fans = less noise in the living room. It's not like I need a big machine for this. I really don't want a lot of white noise competing with the stereo.
I'd rather use the 486 but it won't work with my wireless card.
I always loved those pool cleaner bots that drive around the pool bottom and pick up debris. Could we get a rediculously complicated computer controlled one?
This is a pretty good idea. I've got a pool navagator, and it works pretty good, but I have an "L" shaped pool and the thing shys away from going into the shallow end around the corner. It's a pain in the butt to have to keep relocating it to the shallow end.
Point: there is money here. This pool vacuum runs about $400, and from what I've seen, pool owners don't care about spending $400 for something to eliminate the tidium of cleaning the pool. So there is money in this market.
And why stop there? The same technique could be used for lawnmowers, much like this one but you wouldn't have to bury tracks.
Sounds like an opportunity for some X-titsup.com coders to turn a buck..
I only have one real gripe about PostgreSQL- I hate the upgrade path.
Having to dump the database to disk and re-import is a bad thing IMO. Having to add a switch to keep integrety constraints is a very odd thing for a database (shouldn't the default be to *keep* integrety constraints?)
A separate program to preserve LOBs I can rationalize (it's a lot of generally unneeded overhead since few people use LOBs).
It would really be nice if someone would write some wrapper programs to check for foreign keys and LOBs, then wrap the pg_dumpall & pg_dump commands with the appropriate options into one set of programs.
I also need a math primer. I haven't thought about math since my aborted attempt at college 12 years ago. While I did get an A in Calculus, that was 12 years ago and I remember nothing. The 3D Math book I mentioned above pretty much assumes you already know Calc.
This has come up for me a few times lately as well. What would be really useful (to me) is a good collection of *just* math/science symbols and definitions, as well as obligatory reminders of common equations, conversions, and computations.
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I say hook them up with those "Get paid to surf" sites. Not only revenue for the science team, but I'd love to see the "paid to surf" sites try to make sense out of that data.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature,
humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
-- Larry Wall
With the rise of all these computer generated images in film there might be no real actors soon !!!
This is very bad !
I agree.
I think it would be sad if rather then a few actors making $20 million we ended up with a bunch of computer geeks taking that money home.
Goodness knows no one here wants the job market for geeks to pick back up. Give that cash to the hollywood heartthrobs- my heart *so* goes out to them in these desperate times..
is it being ultra-paranoid to think that maybe these companies are including these holes intentionally?
In a word, Yes.
These are typical buffer overruns. This happens when you don't check to make sure the amount of data you are writing to a buffer will actually fit in the buffer. It's a hideously common programming error that rarely shows up in testing.
And it isn't just an AOL/MS problem- *nix systems have suffered this numerous times as well (most recently the/usr/bin/login problem).
I worked at a good sized ISP in denver which ran it's signup server on NT4 SP3 using IIS. At one point it had an uptime of just under a year and a half- the only reason it went down at all (as far as I know) was we had to move our datacenter to another building.
Nothing quite like having to move a few hundred servers to break your uptime records.
Once the price comes down enough, Sony would be smart to start bundling PS2's with harddrives
Nonsense. Console systems have to be robust. They get yanked off of tables, dropped, generally beat up.
Hard drives may be a lot more robust then they once were, but they are not up to dealing with the level of abuse a console system takes.
And since they are already losing money on the consoles, they certainly would not be "smart" to start shipping them with hard drives. It would kill them on returns, warranty repair and the like.
Instead you should be feeling brief twinge of nostalgia for the good old days when you actually had to type anonymous and you got flamed if you couldn't spell on usenet- way back when The Internet was an information highway.
It'll be up to the target to do the st00pid thing and run the executable. I can see an argument that by voluntarily running trojanned code, he gives up his right to security.
Where did you get this idea? Have you ever heard of a exploiting buffer overflows in daemons/services? stack smashing?
I would think that after the recent code red episode it would be fairly obvious that a user doesn't have to do anything to have thier system compromised.
According to the original story at http://www.msnbc.com/news/660096.asp
The FBI is developing software capable of inserting a computer virus onto a suspect's machine
I see nothing there about the target having to run the executable.
The most obvious problem with a multi-language approach is with support.
You can certainly find a programmer to help you write code, but can you find a programmer that can read, write and debug perl, java, C++, and whatever else you have decided to use?
If you've got some good programmers that can all program well with all the languages of choice, and they aren't snatched up by some soon-to-be titsup.com, then you are okay. But if you are the only person that can cover all the bases, *you* are going to be the one that has to spend the long nights debugging.
Then, once you end up with the wonderful position of being the only guy who can fix it when it breaks, you'll find you don't get to deveop anymore, because you'll end up spending all your time debugging.
I was just forwarded the following as info on removing this bad boy. I've read a lot about people rebooting and losing the box, so looks like a bit more planning then that is needed.
Anyway, I havn't verified this works but here's how one person claims to have removed the beast:
the last several hours of removing this baby from the whole office, here
are the steps---
set up the computer to:View All Files. (this includes the hidden files)
Find: *.EML DELETE ALL of these Outlook Express email files. The
filenames come from files that have been accessed. You'll find EML files
in your startup, system tray, start menu, etc. just search all local and
network drives. A single computer can have 400 to 3000 of these files
Find: *.NWS DELETE ALL of these newsgroup files. About 20 or so.
Find: riched20.dll DELETE ALL that have todays date. This will leave
only one. If you delete all of them, you need a good one in
/windows/system. Go find on another computer.
Run: SYSEDIT, edit the c:\windows\system.ini file and modify the
SHELL=EXPLORER.EXE to read just that. Take out the load.exe -noloadold
(or something like that).
Find: load.exe and delete this bad boy. If inuse by Windows, you need to
reboot.
if your computer comes up with "modifying system files" on a reboot, the
load.exe is still being executed. Repeat the above steps (but you won't
find the SHELL=EXPLORER corruption).
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I live in Tucson, AZ. 15 minutes north of here is a huge national forest and about every 3 or 4 years, someone's kid gets lost up there.
It's not hard. You walk about a block and you are totally out of sight in the rocks, trees, & brush.
Usually, they find the kid, sometimes in an hour, sometimes in a day, sometimes in a week, sometimes a couple of years later. This is a bad thing, there's not really much water up there.
I personally think this watch is a great idea for such trips. If you could rent them at the ranger station at the base of the mountain, that would do wonders for income- they've recently added a $10/trip, $20/year pass fees for the range. I'd much rather see them taking in income for a tangible service the charge for wanting to get out of the city.
Perhaps I'll live to see California separate from the US.
And here I thought it was because that is what linux was written for- it started as a programming experiment to learn the 386 bios, and that support was never dropped.
And here I am trying to decide if I should re-deploy the print server (a p166) in the living room.
I just finished building a linux box for the living room stereo to NFS mount to my MP3 archive for web-based access. It's prefect for my needs, and I can pick songs with anything wireless with a browser within range of the access point.
The reason I'd like something smaller is it would require less fans & less fans = less noise in the living room. It's not like I need a big machine for this. I really don't want a lot of white noise competing with the stereo.
I'd rather use the 486 but it won't work with my wireless card.
This is a pretty good idea. I've got a pool navagator, and it works pretty good, but I have an "L" shaped pool and the thing shys away from going into the shallow end around the corner. It's a pain in the butt to have to keep relocating it to the shallow end.
Point: there is money here. This pool vacuum runs about $400, and from what I've seen, pool owners don't care about spending $400 for something to eliminate the tidium of cleaning the pool. So there is money in this market.
And why stop there? The same technique could be used for lawnmowers, much like this one but you wouldn't have to bury tracks.
Sounds like an opportunity for some X-titsup.com coders to turn a buck..
Specifically, I am refering to OIDs.
If an OID is like a ROWID in oracle, then I recant this point whole heartedly.
I would still like a more direct upgrade path tho- I really don't like the idea of doing a full dump to disk to reload to the new database.
I only have one real gripe about PostgreSQL- I hate the upgrade path.
Having to dump the database to disk and re-import is a bad thing IMO. Having to add a switch to keep integrety constraints is a very odd thing for a database (shouldn't the default be to *keep* integrety constraints?)
A separate program to preserve LOBs I can rationalize (it's a lot of generally unneeded overhead since few people use LOBs).
It would really be nice if someone would write some wrapper programs to check for foreign keys and LOBs, then wrap the pg_dumpall & pg_dump commands with the appropriate options into one set of programs.
This has come up for me a few times lately as well. What would be really useful (to me) is a good collection of *just* math/science symbols and definitions, as well as obligatory reminders of common equations, conversions, and computations.
I say hook them up with those "Get paid to surf" sites. Not only revenue for the science team, but I'd love to see the "paid to surf" sites try to make sense out of that data.
--
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature,
humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
-- Larry Wall
But then to each his own.
I think it would be sad if rather then a few actors making $20 million we ended up with a bunch of computer geeks taking that money home.
Goodness knows no one here wants the job market for geeks to pick back up. Give that cash to the hollywood heartthrobs- my heart *so* goes out to them in these desperate times..
These are typical buffer overruns. This happens when you don't check to make sure the amount of data you are writing to a buffer will actually fit in the buffer. It's a hideously common programming error that rarely shows up in testing.
And it isn't just an AOL/MS problem- *nix systems have suffered this numerous times as well (most recently the
I worked at a good sized ISP in denver which ran it's signup server on NT4 SP3 using IIS. At one point it had an uptime of just under a year and a half- the only reason it went down at all (as far as I know) was we had to move our datacenter to another building.
Nothing quite like having to move a few hundred servers to break your uptime records.
Nonsense. Console systems have to be robust. They get yanked off of tables, dropped, generally beat up.
Hard drives may be a lot more robust then they once were, but they are not up to dealing with the level of abuse a console system takes.
And since they are already losing money on the consoles, they certainly would not be "smart" to start shipping them with hard drives. It would kill them on returns, warranty repair and the like.
Instead you should be feeling brief twinge of nostalgia for the good old days when you actually had to type anonymous and you got flamed if you couldn't spell on usenet- way back when The Internet was an information highway.
I used to get *tons* of cellphone spam with the text messaging being as simple as @xxxxxxx.net.
I don't know how many times I would get a 911 page at 2am to find out some other poor guy had been the victim of cell-phone shotgun spamming.
It's gotten much better in about the last year, but don't rule out being spammed by our current system.
Where did you get this idea? Have you ever heard of a exploiting buffer overflows in daemons/services? stack smashing?
I would think that after the recent code red episode it would be fairly obvious that a user doesn't have to do anything to have thier system compromised.
According to the original story at http://www.msnbc.com/news/660096.asp
I see nothing there about the target having to run the executable.
Or was this just flamebait?
The most obvious problem with a multi-language approach is with support.
You can certainly find a programmer to help you write code, but can you find a programmer that can read, write and debug perl, java, C++, and whatever else you have decided to use?
If you've got some good programmers that can all program well with all the languages of choice, and they aren't snatched up by some soon-to-be titsup.com, then you are okay. But if you are the only person that can cover all the bases, *you* are going to be the one that has to spend the long nights debugging.
Then, once you end up with the wonderful position of being the only guy who can fix it when it breaks, you'll find you don't get to deveop anymore, because you'll end up spending all your time debugging.
Secuirty is not something that exists. This card is just something to make us think that it does.
I think the quote you are after is:
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. -- Helen Keller
You beat me to this reply because I lost my password.. You are dead on. REMOTE_ADDR is a really bad choice.
But if you XOR it with timestamp it should be fine. Better choice might be the sessionid or anything else that is actually random.
I was just forwarded the following as info on removing this bad boy. I've read a lot about people rebooting and losing the box, so looks like a bit more planning then that is needed.
:View All Files. (this includes the hidden files)
Anyway, I havn't verified this works but here's how one person claims to have removed the beast:
the last several hours of removing this baby from the whole office, here
are the steps---
set up the computer to
Find: *.EML DELETE ALL of these Outlook Express email files. The
filenames come from files that have been accessed. You'll find EML files
in your startup, system tray, start menu, etc. just search all local and
network drives. A single computer can have 400 to 3000 of these files
Find: *.NWS DELETE ALL of these newsgroup files. About 20 or so.
Find: riched20.dll DELETE ALL that have todays date. This will leave
only one. If you delete all of them, you need a good one in
/windows/system. Go find on another computer.
Run: SYSEDIT, edit the c:\windows\system.ini file and modify the
SHELL=EXPLORER.EXE to read just that. Take out the load.exe -noloadold
(or something like that).
Find: load.exe and delete this bad boy. If inuse by Windows, you need to
reboot.
if your computer comes up with "modifying system files" on a reboot, the
load.exe is still being executed. Repeat the above steps (but you won't
find the SHELL=EXPLORER corruption).
Just write something that makes it easy to convert between dos and *nix file formats, like this