What I do is put the names of a few bands I like into a search engine, and look at DJ's playlists, etc. that turn up in the result, and then pull songs off of direct connect. The real problem is finding a local place to buy these albums...and I live in a major city! Even finding US based mail order places that have a reasonable selection and prices is difficult. Next time I am in Europe, I'll spend some money for sure.
Heh...just kidding. But really, we're too dependant on him, and his whims. We need a less ego in the BSD world. Theo DeRaadt, Darren Reed, Dan Bernstein et al can be fine programmers but what's the damn point if they can't get along. OpenBSD's development has too much power concentrated in the hands of too few people. This leads to all sorts of boo-boos and the inability to maintain older code (3.0 just died...ugh!).
I think that licenses are important. They need to be unconfusing. Project developers should find an existing, popular, and well understood license that most closely suit their needs and put their work under that license, rather than create their own. Here is where I fault DJB and Reed for their licensing quirks.
What license is irritating me the most right now is PINE's.
The problem with alcohol and biodiesel is that they require an energy-intensive chemical process to convert from their ground (naturally found) form (sugars/starches/oils) to their consumable (alcohol biodiesel) state. This causes expense in the $$ and energy budgets which render them less practical when petroleum products have a low price.
An alternative is to use the oils from certain plants (rapeseed, soy, etc) directly. The reason why this isn't more popular is that the diesel engine needs to be modified. This is about $500 from http://www.greasecar.com. You get dual fuel tanks so you can still burn diesel, so supply isn't as difficult of a problem. Personally, I think it's worth it and when I can get a decent diesel (VW Turbo Diesel Wagon) I'll have it done.
Actually, I have heard differently. What has happened is that the aquafer has been overtapped, bringing up brine from deeper in the earth. This is a huge problem. It's quite difficult to fix land that's been broken in such a way, though there are a class of plants called halophytes that may be able to be grown. Australia has some rather strange geology, much of it due the its absence of vulcanism (volcanos, you who would make trekkie jokes). The Australian government needs to better understand its continent or risk ruining it a lot faster than the rest of the world wrecks their homelands.
Who's the flaming newbie whose password was "stolen?" I'll bet it was a good one, too -- maybe "college" or something really esoteric, like "irvine". Of course, having only attended the local LUG for a few weeks, you hadn't enough time to absorb to proper levels of, um, sophistication... I'll bet that by now, you're using passwords like "tux" and "userfriendly", that no one would ever be able to guess. You do use Linux, after all! Tee hee! [geocities.com]
There are active measures against dumb passwords. This password was not guessed, it was intercepted.
And the funny thing is...you never needed to make a phone call. I'm sure an email to security@uci.edu and/or abuse@uci.edu would've been just fine.
I didn't use email because I didn't want to tip off the scoundrel in the case he had somehow obtained root, however unlikely that was (well, this was in the days when OpenBSD felt secure).
I live in Cambridge, down the street from Harvard, and I can tell you that in spite of the abundance of used / alternative record stores I don't find much worth buying. Small stores cater more towards the Three Dog Night crowd than the stuff like Hypnoskull, Noisex, MS Gentur, P.A.L that I want to buy. When I did find a P.A.L album, finally, in Newbury Comics, I did buy it -- but that was 4 months ago and I've never seen anything else since.
When I was in Europe I did spent a fair amount of money at festivals. Good albums were about 13 EU. A much better deal and much less frustrating.
So, I'll still keep to using P2P and buy stuff when I can.
about a year ago, someone had stolen a password on a system of mine and I found them in the act, connected from UCIrvine. Phone calls to campus police, the IT department, and the IT security desk (ha), were worse than fruitless. They said I was being attacked by nimda, and when I told them no, I was running linux and this was a different sort of thing, they ignored me and passed me up the chain. NOTHING came of my reports except about $10 of phone calls. UCI is now firewalled from my network. Maybe it should be firewalled from the rest of the net, as they don't know anything about security and don't want to learn.
There's a plan to put a couple of hundred windmills off the coast of cape cod (consistant wind is good). It is being thwarted by so-called "environmentalists" who think it will spoil the view. Such short sighted people!
there's something to it...when I saw the name I knew it was someone important, but I couldn't connect the name to the accomplishment. Yeah, Leonard lives on, in my dmesg. What more can a man ask for? as I have watched so many machines boot over the years, names such as his have become so familiar.
Fare the well Leonard, in the great archive in the sky, and be assured that backups will retain your code, forever.
If it is impossible it will just take a little longer.
uh, does anyone else agree that such a statement reflects complete ignorance of time travel and its implications? If time travel is possible, it doesn't take "a little longer". Time travel either is possible or it is not (I mean travel into the past. We are all traveling into the future, yes?).
Yes Atlas Shrugged and The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. Both books (and their authors) have flaws but are really quite good.
But you know I am so damned tired of whiney communists/'greens' and their ilk. Yea, the planet can get fucked up by messy idiots. However, they seem to revel in picking on western civilization, especially the US, in its contribution to the problem. There's a lot of GOOD that's come out of science and technology relating to fixing the mess, yet these luddites cast their eyes longingly at the 'simple tribal societies' of the third world, while damning technological progress! The same people who can't explain to me what food is 'organic' and what is not, seem to think that they can somehow use their 'love of mother earth' as a substitute for rational thought in molding environmental policy.
If you really want to see the world become cleaner, figure stop hugging trees and start driving a GreaseCar, or find out about the advantages and disadvantages of a Tesla Turbine, etc.
zulux said:
Well, thats easy! We just set up giant pits filled with spikes - put a few signs around stating "Warning, Giant Pit Filled With Spikes. Stay Away!"
All rational people will take a look, shrug, and back away - the stupid will, of course, fall in.;)
I came up with another method, a reverse lottery: you go to the convenience store, and stick your hand in a machine that most likely will give you two dollars, but there's a one in 100,000 chance it will electrocute you to death on the spot.
We'd soon have a pile of dead stupid people, all for only $200,000 each!
Zimbabwe's government brought this upon themselves. They have disrupted the farms, killed and driven off the farmers. Too bad Mugabe doesn't weight enough to provide a pound of flesh for everyone who is starving. His murderous, racist regime is an example of all that is wrong with Africa.
"Donuts on a rope" HAS been explained. It is produced by PDW (Pulse Detonation Wave) engines. What hasn't been explained is what is making them, as there are no PDW engines officially in use yet. Much speculation is that the ultra-secret US spy plane Aurora is what's creating these. Some spy plane, if it leaves such a distinctive signature!
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What I do is put the names of a few bands I like into a search engine, and look at DJ's playlists, etc. that turn up in the result, and then pull songs off of direct connect. The real problem is finding a local place to buy these albums...and I live in a major city! Even finding US based mail order places that have a reasonable selection and prices is difficult. Next time I am in Europe, I'll spend some money for sure.
Hey man, cancel your speakeasy and go with MSN or something. You're going to put them out of business ;)
Well, this explains what happened when I was there after being hit by a truck. The doctors were great but the place was very disorganized. Hrm.
End-Of-Life = abandonedware, so they're going to make it public domain, huh! Thanks guys!
"heh" yes....I will look out.
OpenBSD is dying, because Theo has a cold.
Heh...just kidding. But really, we're too dependant on him, and his whims. We need a less ego in the BSD world. Theo DeRaadt, Darren Reed, Dan Bernstein et al can be fine programmers but what's the damn point if they can't get along. OpenBSD's development has too much power concentrated in the hands of too few people. This leads to all sorts of boo-boos and the inability to maintain older code (3.0 just died...ugh!).
I think that licenses are important. They need to be unconfusing. Project developers should find an existing, popular, and well understood license that most closely suit their needs and put their work under that license, rather than create their own. Here is where I fault DJB and Reed for their licensing quirks.
What license is irritating me the most right now is PINE's.
The problem with alcohol and biodiesel is that they require an energy-intensive chemical process to convert from their ground (naturally found) form (sugars/starches/oils) to their consumable (alcohol biodiesel) state. This causes expense in the $$ and energy budgets which render them less practical when petroleum products have a low price.
An alternative is to use the oils from certain plants (rapeseed, soy, etc) directly. The reason why this isn't more popular is that the diesel engine needs to be modified. This is about $500 from http://www.greasecar.com. You get dual fuel tanks so you can still burn diesel, so supply isn't as difficult of a problem. Personally, I think it's worth it and when I can get a decent diesel (VW Turbo Diesel Wagon) I'll have it done.
Actually, I have heard differently. What has happened is that the aquafer has been overtapped, bringing up brine from deeper in the earth. This is a huge problem. It's quite difficult to fix land that's been broken in such a way, though there are a class of plants called halophytes that may be able to be grown. Australia has some rather strange geology, much of it due the its absence of vulcanism (volcanos, you who would make trekkie jokes). The Australian government needs to better understand its continent or risk ruining it a lot faster than the rest of the world wrecks their homelands.
yes, this is all a hoax so someone can cheat at scrabble.
There are active measures against dumb passwords. This password was not guessed, it was intercepted.
I didn't use email because I didn't want to tip off the scoundrel in the case he had somehow obtained root, however unlikely that was (well, this was in the days when OpenBSD felt secure).
OK maybe this isn't clear:
;)
It was not my password, it was a user's account on a system I administer. As I force users to login with ssh, this had to be stolen in a local attack.
So, no this is shiney stainless steel pan calling kettle black
:>\-i yes it looks like line noise or an emoticon, but it's really a shell script. This protects against rm *.
/etc, /bin), and type :>\-i
so cd to all of your really important directories (/,
what it does is create an empty file named -i
when the shell expands * the first file it lists is -i, which rm interprets as an option for interactive mode, so you have to confirm each deletion.
I am thoe original author of this shell script, consider it GPLd.
I live in Cambridge, down the street from Harvard, and I can tell you that in spite of the abundance of used / alternative record stores I don't find much worth buying. Small stores cater more towards the Three Dog Night crowd than the stuff like Hypnoskull, Noisex, MS Gentur, P.A.L that I want to buy. When I did find a P.A.L album, finally, in Newbury Comics, I did buy it -- but that was 4 months ago and I've never seen anything else since.
When I was in Europe I did spent a fair amount of money at festivals. Good albums were about 13 EU. A much better deal and much less frustrating.
So, I'll still keep to using P2P and buy stuff when I can.
about a year ago, someone had stolen a password on a system of mine and I found them in the act, connected from UCIrvine. Phone calls to campus police, the IT department, and the IT security desk (ha), were worse than fruitless. They said I was being attacked by nimda, and when I told them no, I was running linux and this was a different sort of thing, they ignored me and passed me up the chain. NOTHING came of my reports except about $10 of phone calls. UCI is now firewalled from my network. Maybe it should be firewalled from the rest of the net, as they don't know anything about security and don't want to learn.
don't sign unless they give you lots of money. like at least a month's wages, and agree not to sue you either.
they'd rather pay you and have the legal end covered.
Back in the heyday of "X.25" networks, there were a lot of illegitimate users. There was inadequate technology to protect and track.
It is rumored that there are accounts on public x.25 networks, belonging to large corporations, that have worked for over 13 years.
There's a plan to put a couple of hundred windmills off the coast of cape cod (consistant wind is good). It is being thwarted by so-called "environmentalists" who think it will spoil the view. Such short sighted people!
there's something to it...when I saw the name I knew it was someone important, but I couldn't connect the name to the accomplishment. Yeah, Leonard lives on, in my dmesg. What more can a man ask for? as I have watched so many machines boot over the years, names such as his have become so familiar.
Fare the well Leonard, in the great archive in the sky, and be assured that backups will retain your code, forever.
uh, does anyone else agree that such a statement reflects complete ignorance of time travel and its implications? If time travel is possible, it doesn't take "a little longer". Time travel either is possible or it is not (I mean travel into the past. We are all traveling into the future, yes?).
Yes Atlas Shrugged and The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. Both books (and their authors) have flaws but are really quite good.
But you know I am so damned tired of whiney communists/'greens' and their ilk. Yea, the planet can get fucked up by messy idiots. However, they seem to revel in picking on western civilization, especially the US, in its contribution to the problem. There's a lot of GOOD that's come out of science and technology relating to fixing the mess, yet these luddites cast their eyes longingly at the 'simple tribal societies' of the third world, while damning technological progress! The same people who can't explain to me what food is 'organic' and what is not, seem to think that they can somehow use their 'love of mother earth' as a substitute for rational thought in molding environmental policy.
If you really want to see the world become cleaner, figure stop hugging trees and start driving a GreaseCar, or find out about the advantages and disadvantages of a Tesla Turbine, etc.
All rational people will take a look, shrug, and back away - the stupid will, of course, fall in. ;)
I came up with another method, a reverse lottery: you go to the convenience store, and stick your hand in a machine that most likely will give you two dollars, but there's a one in 100,000 chance it will electrocute you to death on the spot.
We'd soon have a pile of dead stupid people, all for only $200,000 each!
what we need is our own p2p system for kernel updates.
Zimbabwe's government brought this upon themselves. They have disrupted the farms, killed and driven off the farmers. Too bad Mugabe doesn't weight enough to provide a pound of flesh for everyone who is starving. His murderous, racist regime is an example of all that is wrong with Africa.
"Donuts on a rope" HAS been explained. It is produced by PDW (Pulse Detonation Wave) engines. What hasn't been explained is what is making them, as there are no PDW engines officially in use yet. Much speculation is that the ultra-secret US spy plane Aurora is what's creating these. Some spy plane, if it leaves such a distinctive signature!