I have been seriously looking at getting the NetWinder 3400 ('soon to be released') to use as a NAT/firewall. I was never particularly convinced that the pricepoint would be great, but the functionality seemed excellent. What other products are out there that offer similar functionality, out of the box, now that Rebel is no longer with us?
It does. Change it to 300 or so and forget about it, if they keep up these tactics they'll be out of business by then.
On the other hand, 'opt-out' is kind of misleading. The way it works is that their window opens, sees the cookie, and then closes. So you still have all the irritation of the ads, it's just that by the time your mouse gets to the corner to instinctively hit 'close', its already gone. More insidious than normal popups, if you ask me.
I use a standard CDPD cellular modem (blazing 19.2 connection). I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this being 'non-linux friendly'. I use a novatel Merlin pcmcia card modem, and linux (and freebsd, and macos, and windows...) all just pick it up as a standard serial device. Set it to dial 10.0.0.1 as the outgoing number, and the modem connects and acts as a normal modem from then on. Yes, the configuration software is windows only (maybe mac, too?), but you only need to do it once, and we all know that you have some Windows machines in there.
Do Cisco tech folks take tips? I mean, of course they're only doing their job, but when someone saves your ass bigtime and really impresses you in the process, it's often nice to show some appreciation.
I've been doing Java development for quite a while. I recently switched a small project over to JDK1.4 (bugs and all) to get a feel for it. One of my major motivations was to use many of the new APIs and reduce external library dependencies. Switching from log4j (which I used quite extensively) to the new logging API was truly trivial... just a quick script doing some text replacement. Yes, there are some issues with the logging API, but it's architecture is similar enough to log4j that, for the end users, there really are no significant problems. Indeed, my only real complaint is that I do feel that the logging API distinction of FINEST/FINER/FINE priorities is gratuitous, and annoying. Still, easy resolution: Pick one (I'm just using FINE) and stick with it as the exact equivalent of log4j's DEBUG.
In other words, I think people are making a mountain out of a molehill. The logging API is not perfect; neither are any of Sun's APIs, for a revision or two. While I won't go so far as to say that Sun has a reason for not using log4j, I don't think it affects the average developer in the least.
In regards to this story being fake, I can confirm that this is not the case. I have been in touch with the Dean of Students, who is apparently in charge of handling this matter. While I haven't yet received an official response about the U's position (I'll post it as soon as I get it), I can very much confirm that this is real.
This is all well and good, until the evil guy with a flashlight and a laptop decides to send a blind person flying down the escalator without warning...
As a student at the University of Utah, I took it upon myself to fire off an e-mail to the President's office, to get their point of view on the issue and to make clear that I am less than pleased. I recommend all the UU students who feel strongly about this issue do the same; I doubt, though, that non-students writing in would be well received, so I shan't post an e-mail address here.
Whenever I get a reply, I'll post it in reply to this, so if you're interested, check back in a day or three.
To nitpick, the 'parent' of a clone wouldn't have to worry about his or her clone 'expiring.' The telomeres of the clone start out the same length as the parents; assuming they decrease at a constant length (I don't know one way or the other), the clone would die of old age at the same time as the parent, not before, leaving the buyer with little to complain about, as they'll be rather dead themselves.
Is it true that, as the story implies, AOL now takes up over 80MB? If so, what's in that? Not localization information, since it's just the english version... shouldn't it be getting most of its graphics and such on demand from the 'net? I just don't get it.
Kurt, how about a rootless X client? Is AtheOS able to run any X servers? If so, a decent client, running inside of the AtheOS GUI, seems to be the way to go to get a lot of apps running ASAP. Thoughts?
From the webpage:
integer Large:= 16#FFFF_FFFF
integer Twenty_Seven:= 3#1000
real MAX_FLT is 2#1.1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111#E127
If I can choose a base arbitrarily, why the assumption that I want to choose my base in base 10? Why can't I choose my base in base 16, as such...
integer thirtytwo = 16#20#10
But then I still need to choose the base I want to choose my base in in base ten... why not
integer thirtytwo = 2#10000#20#10
But then... agh! We're stuck in a loop.
To be slightly less snide for a moment, what I'm trying to point out is that, while this is a good idea, it is slightly silly and slightly unnecessary. There are certain bases that are used... there are others that, in general, are not. Don't support every base through a clumsy yet silly syntax. I'd rather be able to do the following, and only the following:
integer ten = 10
integer ten = 10d
integer ten = 12o
integer ten = 0Ah
integer ten = 1010b
where the default encoding is decimal, but I can use one of d, o, h, or b to switch to another common base.
Silly question. As another poster said, the instant they get to your hardware, just give up. Fine, let's postulate a keyboard which entirely encrypts everything, unbreakably. So the person who would otherwise just log your keystrokes instead puts a little RF transmitter under each key that triggers when the key is depressed... in effect, they've mirrored your keyboard, and now have a perfect key logger, even if your keyboard isn't plugged in. The simple fact is that there is no safety, once you allow people to fiddle with your hardware. The solution? Don't let 'em.
Yes, a fix is already out. You say this is good. I say you're not nearly paranoid enough for slashdot! All this means is that Microsoft already knew, and they've been using the bug for their own nefarious purposes! But now they've been caught, and they managed to find a way to turn even that to their advantage.
It's not too late, folks! We can still get the tacos! We must pool our resources, buy the Mir bits from ebay, and locate the tacobell raft! Having gotten Mir, and having found the raft, we can introduce them too each other, and obtain our tacos! Late, but not too late!
Chalk this up to one of those "Well, DUH" kind of things. I don't even understand why this is attracting attention. Lack of Privacy in your home I can understand. Spyware on your personal machine I can understand. But privacy issues in SCHOOLS? Come on...
What about those of us at state-run, public schools, who are required to stay in the dorms first year? Are you saying that, by going to college, I am giving up my right to privacy?
Gladly. There are multiple vendors of the java runtime, and it is a goal of Sun to have a runtime on all major platforms. And they're doing pretty good, really. On the other hand, the.NET runtime is tied to Microsoft's.NET products. Microsoft has NOT stated that they will try to produce a runtime for any non-MS environment. They have NOT stated that other vendors will be allowed to produce runtime environments. In other words, regardless of whether they're just as portable in theory, in practice there's a huge difference.
Java (the virtual machine) is NOT just one language. Scheme, Smalltalk, Python, and Java, among others, all compile down to bytecode. Personally, I do most of my prototyping in Jython. I then rewrite the performance-critical portions in Java. Java can extend Jython classes, and vice versa, so they play together seamlessly... in other words, what.NET promises tomorrow, the JVM provides today.
CS degrees aren't supposed to teach you a specific language. Hell, they're not even supposed to teach you to program; any moron can learn to do that, just look at slashcode. They're supposed to teach you how to THINK about programming, and how to solve the problems that come up while programming in an effective way. These solutions are ENTIRELY independent from language. Perhaps their are significant differences between philosophies for, say, OO languages and other languages (although this is debatable); in any case, a CS degree earned today should be usable regardless of language.
Besides, is ANY accreditted institution giving degrees based on a single language? Where I am, you need to know C/C++, Java, CL, and MIPS assembly to even have a chance at graduating.
From the article: For more integer-oriented tasks, where there are few instructions with multiple operations, running eight operations per second is the theoretical maximum.
Now, I've never been particularly keen on Intel, but I've worked with vacuum-tube systems that can top eight ops/sec.;-)
Another question is whether it is even possible to regulate sufficiently advanced VOIP. From what I understand, VOIP works by using a standard UDP connection, and simply sends packets representing voice information. How can this be detected as being VOIP, rather than any other UDP-using application? Even if the contents can be uniquely identified as containing sound data, how can we know this isn't some internet equivalent of a radio station? And lastly, what if we slap a thin layer of encryption over the packets (currently, the computational cost of encryption/decryption makes this unlikely, but that will soon change) so that they're not recognizable? Given this, peer-to-peer VOIP is indiscernable from acceptable, unregulated traffic.
> If the DNA is really ET DNA - that is it is
> truely genetically unrelated to anything on
> earth, it would mean that the universe must be
> full of DNA for it to just land on Earth.
Why does the fact that it's ET DNA mean that it's genetically unrelated? Different by four gigayears of divergent evolution, maybe, but it's entirely possible (and the idea of panspermia is) that we come from the same gene pool, at some point.
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I have been seriously looking at getting the NetWinder 3400 ('soon to be released') to use as a NAT/firewall. I was never particularly convinced that the pricepoint would be great, but the functionality seemed excellent. What other products are out there that offer similar functionality, out of the box, now that Rebel is no longer with us?
It does. Change it to 300 or so and forget about it, if they keep up these tactics they'll be out of business by then.
On the other hand, 'opt-out' is kind of misleading. The way it works is that their window opens, sees the cookie, and then closes. So you still have all the irritation of the ads, it's just that by the time your mouse gets to the corner to instinctively hit 'close', its already gone. More insidious than normal popups, if you ask me.
I use a standard CDPD cellular modem (blazing 19.2 connection). I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this being 'non-linux friendly'. I use a novatel Merlin pcmcia card modem, and linux (and freebsd, and macos, and windows...) all just pick it up as a standard serial device. Set it to dial 10.0.0.1 as the outgoing number, and the modem connects and acts as a normal modem from then on. Yes, the configuration software is windows only (maybe mac, too?), but you only need to do it once, and we all know that you have some Windows machines in there.
Do Cisco tech folks take tips? I mean, of course they're only doing their job, but when someone saves your ass bigtime and really impresses you in the process, it's often nice to show some appreciation.
I've been doing Java development for quite a while. I recently switched a small project over to JDK1.4 (bugs and all) to get a feel for it. One of my major motivations was to use many of the new APIs and reduce external library dependencies. Switching from log4j (which I used quite extensively) to the new logging API was truly trivial... just a quick script doing some text replacement. Yes, there are some issues with the logging API, but it's architecture is similar enough to log4j that, for the end users, there really are no significant problems. Indeed, my only real complaint is that I do feel that the logging API distinction of FINEST/FINER/FINE priorities is gratuitous, and annoying. Still, easy resolution: Pick one (I'm just using FINE) and stick with it as the exact equivalent of log4j's DEBUG.
In other words, I think people are making a mountain out of a molehill. The logging API is not perfect; neither are any of Sun's APIs, for a revision or two. While I won't go so far as to say that Sun has a reason for not using log4j, I don't think it affects the average developer in the least.
In regards to this story being fake, I can confirm that this is not the case. I have been in touch with the Dean of Students, who is apparently in charge of handling this matter. While I haven't yet received an official response about the U's position (I'll post it as soon as I get it), I can very much confirm that this is real.
This is all well and good, until the evil guy with a flashlight and a laptop decides to send a blind person flying down the escalator without warning...
As a student at the University of Utah, I took it upon myself to fire off an e-mail to the President's office, to get their point of view on the issue and to make clear that I am less than pleased. I recommend all the UU students who feel strongly about this issue do the same; I doubt, though, that non-students writing in would be well received, so I shan't post an e-mail address here.
Whenever I get a reply, I'll post it in reply to this, so if you're interested, check back in a day or three.
To nitpick, the 'parent' of a clone wouldn't have to worry about his or her clone 'expiring.' The telomeres of the clone start out the same length as the parents; assuming they decrease at a constant length (I don't know one way or the other), the clone would die of old age at the same time as the parent, not before, leaving the buyer with little to complain about, as they'll be rather dead themselves.
Is it true that, as the story implies, AOL now takes up over 80MB? If so, what's in that? Not localization information, since it's just the english version... shouldn't it be getting most of its graphics and such on demand from the 'net? I just don't get it.
Why is the ISS any better a testbed than, say, asia? It's a lot closer most of the time, you know (from my POV here in the states).
Kurt, how about a rootless X client? Is AtheOS able to run any X servers? If so, a decent client, running inside of the AtheOS GUI, seems to be the way to go to get a lot of apps running ASAP. Thoughts?
From the webpage:
:= 16#FFFF_FFFF
:= 3#1000
integer Large
integer Twenty_Seven
real MAX_FLT is 2#1.1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111#E127
If I can choose a base arbitrarily, why the assumption that I want to choose my base in base 10? Why can't I choose my base in base 16, as such...
integer thirtytwo = 16#20#10
But then I still need to choose the base I want to choose my base in in base ten... why not
integer thirtytwo = 2#10000#20#10
But then... agh! We're stuck in a loop.
To be slightly less snide for a moment, what I'm trying to point out is that, while this is a good idea, it is slightly silly and slightly unnecessary. There are certain bases that are used... there are others that, in general, are not. Don't support every base through a clumsy yet silly syntax. I'd rather be able to do the following, and only the following:
integer ten = 10
integer ten = 10d
integer ten = 12o
integer ten = 0Ah
integer ten = 1010b
where the default encoding is decimal, but I can use one of d, o, h, or b to switch to another common base.
My laptop has a three button mouse... Sony Picturebook.
Silly question. As another poster said, the instant they get to your hardware, just give up. Fine, let's postulate a keyboard which entirely encrypts everything, unbreakably. So the person who would otherwise just log your keystrokes instead puts a little RF transmitter under each key that triggers when the key is depressed... in effect, they've mirrored your keyboard, and now have a perfect key logger, even if your keyboard isn't plugged in. The simple fact is that there is no safety, once you allow people to fiddle with your hardware. The solution? Don't let 'em.
Yes, a fix is already out. You say this is good. I say you're not nearly paranoid enough for slashdot! All this means is that Microsoft already knew, and they've been using the bug for their own nefarious purposes! But now they've been caught, and they managed to find a way to turn even that to their advantage.
It's not too late, folks! We can still get the tacos! We must pool our resources, buy the Mir bits from ebay, and locate the tacobell raft! Having gotten Mir, and having found the raft, we can introduce them too each other, and obtain our tacos! Late, but not too late!
That's odd.... I bought a Dell with a Duron in it not a week ago. Check their home section, there business section really doesn't do AMD.
Chalk this up to one of those "Well, DUH" kind of things. I don't even understand why this is attracting attention. Lack of Privacy in your home I can understand. Spyware on your personal machine I can understand. But privacy issues in SCHOOLS? Come on ...
What about those of us at state-run, public schools, who are required to stay in the dorms first year? Are you saying that, by going to college, I am giving up my right to privacy?
Gladly. There are multiple vendors of the java runtime, and it is a goal of Sun to have a runtime on all major platforms. And they're doing pretty good, really. On the other hand, the .NET runtime is tied to Microsoft's .NET products. Microsoft has NOT stated that they will try to produce a runtime for any non-MS environment. They have NOT stated that other vendors will be allowed to produce runtime environments. In other words, regardless of whether they're just as portable in theory, in practice there's a huge difference.
Java (the virtual machine) is NOT just one language. Scheme, Smalltalk, Python, and Java, among others, all compile down to bytecode. Personally, I do most of my prototyping in Jython. I then rewrite the performance-critical portions in Java. Java can extend Jython classes, and vice versa, so they play together seamlessly... in other words, what .NET promises tomorrow, the JVM provides today.
CS degrees aren't supposed to teach you a specific language. Hell, they're not even supposed to teach you to program; any moron can learn to do that, just look at slashcode. They're supposed to teach you how to THINK about programming, and how to solve the problems that come up while programming in an effective way. These solutions are ENTIRELY independent from language. Perhaps their are significant differences between philosophies for, say, OO languages and other languages (although this is debatable); in any case, a CS degree earned today should be usable regardless of language.
Besides, is ANY accreditted institution giving degrees based on a single language? Where I am, you need to know C/C++, Java, CL, and MIPS assembly to even have a chance at graduating.
From the article: For more integer-oriented tasks, where there are few instructions with multiple operations, running eight operations per second is the theoretical maximum.
;-)
Now, I've never been particularly keen on Intel, but I've worked with vacuum-tube systems that can top eight ops/sec.
Another question is whether it is even possible to regulate sufficiently advanced VOIP. From what I understand, VOIP works by using a standard UDP connection, and simply sends packets representing voice information. How can this be detected as being VOIP, rather than any other UDP-using application? Even if the contents can be uniquely identified as containing sound data, how can we know this isn't some internet equivalent of a radio station? And lastly, what if we slap a thin layer of encryption over the packets (currently, the computational cost of encryption/decryption makes this unlikely, but that will soon change) so that they're not recognizable? Given this, peer-to-peer VOIP is indiscernable from acceptable, unregulated traffic.
> If the DNA is really ET DNA - that is it is
> truely genetically unrelated to anything on
> earth, it would mean that the universe must be
> full of DNA for it to just land on Earth.
Why does the fact that it's ET DNA mean that it's genetically unrelated? Different by four gigayears of divergent evolution, maybe, but it's entirely possible (and the idea of panspermia is) that we come from the same gene pool, at some point.