The two major currents around Australia (The East Australian Current and the Leeuwin Current) are flowing differently this year. The Leeuwin Current is responsible for getting water to Perth and at the rate things are going, it may not normal rain levels there for decades. The East Australian Current is not up to its normal summer speeds this year which may have a negative impact on the Great Barrier Reef. While may people think that just mean some dead coral, the area is the nursery for a significant amount of marine life in the South Pacific. If coral growth is down 25% there, then there will be a 25% reduction in fish stocks in the deep South Pacific next year.
A tropical storm used to be a storm that had an effect on the weather all the way to the edge of the ocean. Any storm that is even close to cat 1 will have a very strong influence on the pressure along the east coast or on one of the many islands. Keep in mind that the British, French, Dutch and Americans have been running manned weather stations on just about any major bit of dirt they could find for the last few hundred years. While they may have missed some smaller storms, I don't think any hurricanes have been missed in the last hundred years.
chown (on systems where any user could use it) would AND mask the perms to 0777 before the new ownership. There were a few systems that did it after the ownership and if you were quick you could create and start a setuid program.
One thing that I've found very odd in Victoria is that the speed limit compliance is very high. At times I've been on highways with low traffic and no one is exceeding the speed limit. This is in sharp contrast to just 5 years ago when most traffic was going about 10 km/h over the limit, now its routine to see 100% compliance with the posted limit.
I've found that with 3 simple changes, I don't need root much at all. A sudo like kill function or even a suid root program that does 'kill -1 $*' That means anyone can restart any services but they can also logout anyone on the system and end any well behaved programs. If this tool is given to people who have root access, you will find thier use of su goes way down. Change port binding rules. This has got to be one of the stupidest things still around in the Unix world. The rules should be you can only open ports 1000. This used to be a 40 byte change to the linux source and gets rid of nearly all suid programs and special root startup scripts in a modern system. Change chown rules to back the way they used to be in the days before posix when any user could give away their files. There are security issues to this but sudo can limit them.
There are plenty of good compression algorithms out there but most of them are covered by patents. There have been many cases where a small company comes out with some cool new way of compressing stuff and then later being told to pay royalties. It can be a real pain trying to decompress data in a few years when the company that made the decompressor is no longer in business.
Have you seen any figures of how much Microsoft spends on IDE development vs Apple? Some of the figures can be dug out of of the annual reports but Microsoft seems to include far more of the other support costs in that group. Maybe someone can dig out the info?
At the end of the day I want a makefile and I'm going to keep using vi (or a good clone). I've recently converted all my last 5 years of documents (that I could still read) into LaTex. I've given up on the glitter and eye candy. I'm going back to the old school and I'm not coming back.
The code I've written in the last 10 or so years thats still in production has been in either C, lex, yacc, perl or assembly. None of the C++, Java, Python, php, Visual Basic, Modula 2, or Pascal is still in production. If I go back back 20 years then I can add in Fortran and APL to the still running pile and an Ada module in the maybe list. I was recently contacted about someone wanting a new feature for a program that I wrote 23 years ago that was a hybrid C and GWBasic.
I used to use computer 100% to get a specific task done. Now it appears that the thing has replaced the TV set as the thing to sit in front of. A modern desktop is too distracting. Email keeps showing up, IM is going off all the time and the calendar is reminding me of stuff that I don't need to pay attention to. The easy solution is turn off email checks but then what happens when the boss needs something urgently? The silly thing needs a "do not disturb" level feature that all programs respect.
I've got programs that watch my every move and record how much time I spend on different projects and the time wasting on OS X is less than time wasting on Windows but its still a long way away from my efficiency on the old Blit terminal. I've been looking for a way to get OS X to tell me what the title is of the window that has focus that won't eat up all the cpu time.
What I'm after is a hook I can build into `make test` that starts by turning on email, im, my todo list, enable/. on the proxy and then when make finishes turns it all off again. It would be even better if thats built into the IDE.
It was bugs in their system (which they claim they own) that let the thing happen. Their solution was for me to run a virus scan on my freebsd box. I sent them a demand letter and it appears they settled the bandwidth usage costs with my upstream provider. I'm still out my time. Maybe its time to send a another letter.
When Microsoft owned software attacked my news server, they were claiming it wasn't their problem because it wasn't their software. I think they are going to have to take a stand on this issue at sometime.
Early reports were that a squirrel could go from Virginia to the Mississippi river without ever touching the ground. The revolution battles were all near towns in the areas that had already been farmed for over 100 years and battle techniques at the time favored flat open land.
You can always go back... Modern emulators of older hardware work great in most cases so you can run your decade old programs even on different hardware.
I've recently switched back to using TeX again. I've got 20 year old documents that I can still edit and print using TeX but I have trouble even recovering the text from word processing documents from only a few years ago. So I decided, screw it, all new stuff will go in TeX and that way I can get to it whenever I want.
I get so much spam thanks to that rfc-ignorant blacklist. I've run my domain for over a decade and spam isn't going to come from it or any of my users and they know that if they spam, I will tell the local anti-spam baseball team where they live. But due to the rfc-ignorant blacklist, I've got to have the useless postmaster address which of course gets a ton of spam to that address.
Publishers have the same problem that the record companies have. They could produce far more content than the shops can deal with. The RIAA isn't about music, its about getting little bits of plastic moved through the checkouts at shops. Book publishers aren't about literature, its about moving dead trees through the checkouts at shops. There are now millions of people who have better facilities to make music than the Beetles had so there is a potential for a million times more records to be produced. The RIAA's (and the shops) business model can't cope with that and neither can the book publishers.
I listened to Stephen King talk about the modern publishing business. He is convinced it has been messed up so bad for so long that no decent new author is ever likely to get published. He uses his wife's work as an example. He thinks she is a better author than he is yet the only ones that want to publish her work are using his name to sell the book. He also mentioned that the big book stores (B&N, Boarders) who stack narrow and deep are killing the hope of many authors where the smaller book shops would stock wide but shallow and would order a copy of a book or two and if they sold, would report it to the NYT top 100. Then Wal-mart would look at the things in the top 20 that they hadn't sold and buy a million copies of each which would then mess up the top 10 stats. A decade ago the data being reported for the NYT best seller list was already not very useful and he fears that it will soon be meaningless. If you ever get a chance to hear Stephen King speak, go listen to him. He's a very good presenter even if your not into his books.
The latest tricks seem to be offering some special deal and all you have to do is login. Soon I expect most of them will be like "Dear Big Bank customer, you've been picked for 200,000 frequent miles" and the a log in screen with spots for bank and airline details and people may just give away all that info.
I've seen two messages that are heading in this direction and the banks better step up their education because more people will fall for these than the older scams.
And this isn't new.... This type of social engineering has been involved in fraud for a very long time.
Facts on/.? Now for some more info... Albert Speer's department worked with automotive engineers under direction of Ferdinand Porsche to change the rules about what a highway should be. They did the tables of calculations for the slant of the road as well much work on bridges and grade refinements. At the time a major state road in rural US areas would consists of two lanes with about a 1 ft grass median and there were a few multi-lane highways but all the others were just built like a typical paved street. Speer's group was the one that came up with extended bridges that would never flood as well as overpasses which lead to roads that could be used at night and after snow. Speer's main job was to build the "New Rome" and what he built was supposed to inspire the whole "might of Rome" concept so he did have an advantage when it came to justifying building a huge flat road out in the middle of nowhere complete with overpasses and fancy bridges.
The slope calculations are important because a road must have a slant to get rid of the water. The problem is then the car is going to run down hill and run off the road. The result of Porsche's groups work is a slight adjustment to the suspension so that the car tracks correctly on straight roads but slanted and properly banked roads. You may notice a slight dip before right banks and small hill before left turns on well built highways. Thats there to unbalance the suspension so that it will properly track the curve and nearly every modern car will track properly.
I've seen a bridge plans distributed by the US DOT (whoever it was in the '30s) that had Albert Speer's seal on it and someone had converted all the metric to feet/in. There are many bridges in Kansas that were built using that as a basic plan. Highway construction seemed to increase dramatically once Thomas Edison lost some of his monopoly on cement.
There was some law that ended up building landing strips in nearly every county in the lower 48 States. Their major use was for many years flying checks around and I expect the early funding was either part of a post office or banking bill. The stuff about using highways for landing strips makes no sense today considering all the side markers and signs and power lines that cross the things but drivers in Alaska have to give way to planes landing on the road.
1) One dimensional characters? The "rangers" where introduced in about 3 seconds in a way that would have lead you to understand they were just like Tolken's Rangers out of Lord of the Rings. He could have hours building that depth and miss (like Peter Jackson did) or he could assume you read the books and would understand. There are many other examples through the series that assume you are well read and thats where the depth of the characters come from.
2) After much foreshadowing and much work to build up a very suttle idea of just how scary the bad guys are and how benvolent the good guys are he throws the whole thing away and the bad guys are so evil and the good guys are more evil than anyone else.
3) got messed up because of the stupid pseudo-cancelation on the 4th season. The result was much of the story had to be speed up and that did mess things up thanks to the stupid execs at the studios.
After watching Lexx for about the 2nd time, I asked a friend in the US about it and he claimed it was just too bad to watch. His claim was the edits were bad and the scenes and dialog jumped around. It appears that the show he was was watching was a seriously cut version of the one I saw. The one here would show enough of Zev so you knew the cuff matched the collar. If your going to say it bad for the cheesy humor, I'm not going to argue that point.
The sale contract involves the total price including the refund and doesn't include all the small print in the refund rules. At some point a major company is going to get put out of business via class action because of this nonsense. I just hope it soon.
My breakage rate is now 100% down from 50% 6 years ago. I don't buy refund advertised stuff anymore.
How many stores are selling good on the old supply chain model anyway? For many goods Wal-Mart only pays once they are sold which makes them a huge commission shop.
I would say that for every GS I buy for my hacking use, a friend or two will buy one that will always run the defualt firmware. I've found that if I'm doing free tech support that they better buy the exact model I ask them to get because I'm not going to be dealing with lots of different types of hardware for no reason. There are a few people who just don't understand this (Hi Dad!) and get the lowest priced stuff and I refuse to fix it.
I think Linksys has dropped the ball with the L model. They need more ram and maybe more flash. Things are getting tight as it is and my systems in the field running openwrt do run out of ram from time to time. As someone involved with the Melbourne Wireless Router Project I am recommending people not buy any Linksys routers at this time. We have been attempting to locate other routers (such as ASUS) that I feel will be better in the long run but so far I've had poor luck being able to find something that can be had a reasonable retail price.
The only way there will be a decent standard for the low voltage stuff is if the Underwriters Laboratories gets involved with it and they won't touch it unless someone can point out just how many house fires are started by cheap or poorly mixed wall warts.
From what I can see there are getting to be fewer common sizes these days. Regulated 5V is going away and 12V 1 and 2 amp are still common. Inkjets like odd power levels and phones like enough to drop it to 3.3V.
If UL had a standard for the common sizes (and left a few openings for custom future stuff), this problem would be gone by next Christmas.
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The two major currents around Australia (The East Australian Current and the Leeuwin Current) are flowing differently this year. The Leeuwin Current is responsible for getting water to Perth and at the rate things are going, it may not normal rain levels there for decades. The East Australian Current is not up to its normal summer speeds this year which may have a negative impact on the Great Barrier Reef. While may people think that just mean some dead coral, the area is the nursery for a significant amount of marine life in the South Pacific. If coral growth is down 25% there, then there will be a 25% reduction in fish stocks in the deep South Pacific next year.
A tropical storm used to be a storm that had an effect on the weather all the way to the edge of the ocean. Any storm that is even close to cat 1 will have a very strong influence on the pressure along the east coast or on one of the many islands. Keep in mind that the British, French, Dutch and Americans have been running manned weather stations on just about any major bit of dirt they could find for the last few hundred years. While they may have missed some smaller storms, I don't think any hurricanes have been missed in the last hundred years.
chown (on systems where any user could use it) would AND mask the perms to 0777 before the new ownership. There were a few systems that did it after the ownership and if you were quick you could create and start a setuid program.
One thing that I've found very odd in Victoria is that the speed limit compliance is very high. At times I've been on highways with low traffic and no one is exceeding the speed limit. This is in sharp contrast to just 5 years ago when most traffic was going about 10 km/h over the limit, now its routine to see 100% compliance with the posted limit.
a google search gives Results 1 - 2 of about 3 for transferbangle
Altavista gives AltaVista found 2 results
Yep, its a commonly used word.
I've found that with 3 simple changes, I don't need root much at all.
A sudo like kill function or even a suid root program that does 'kill -1 $*'
That means anyone can restart any services but they can also logout anyone on the system and end any well behaved programs. If this tool is given to people who have root access, you will find thier use of su goes way down.
Change port binding rules. This has got to be one of the stupidest things still around in the Unix world. The rules should be you can only open ports 1000. This used to be a 40 byte change to the linux source and gets rid of nearly all suid programs and special root startup scripts in a modern system.
Change chown rules to back the way they used to be in the days before posix when any user could give away their files. There are security issues to this but sudo can limit them.
There are plenty of good compression algorithms out there but most of them are covered by patents. There have been many cases where a small company comes out with some cool new way of compressing stuff and then later being told to pay royalties. It can be a real pain trying to decompress data in a few years when the company that made the decompressor is no longer in business.
Have you seen any figures of how much Microsoft spends on IDE development vs Apple? Some of the figures can be dug out of of the annual reports but Microsoft seems to include far more of the other support costs in that group. Maybe someone can dig out the info?
At the end of the day I want a makefile and I'm going to keep using vi (or a good clone). I've recently converted all my last 5 years of documents (that I could still read) into LaTex. I've given up on the glitter and eye candy. I'm going back to the old school and I'm not coming back.
/. on the proxy and then when make finishes turns it all off again. It would be even better if thats built into the IDE.
The code I've written in the last 10 or so years thats still in production has been in either C, lex, yacc, perl or assembly. None of the C++, Java, Python, php, Visual Basic, Modula 2, or Pascal is still in production. If I go back back 20 years then I can add in Fortran and APL to the still running pile and an Ada module in the maybe list. I was recently contacted about someone wanting a new feature for a program that I wrote 23 years ago that was a hybrid C and GWBasic.
I used to use computer 100% to get a specific task done. Now it appears that the thing has replaced the TV set as the thing to sit in front of. A modern desktop is too distracting. Email keeps showing up, IM is going off all the time and the calendar is reminding me of stuff that I don't need to pay attention to. The easy solution is turn off email checks but then what happens when the boss needs something urgently? The silly thing needs a "do not disturb" level feature that all programs respect.
I've got programs that watch my every move and record how much time I spend on different projects and the time wasting on OS X is less than time wasting on Windows but its still a long way away from my efficiency on the old Blit terminal. I've been looking for a way to get OS X to tell me what the title is of the window that has focus that won't eat up all the cpu time.
What I'm after is a hook I can build into `make test` that starts by turning on email, im, my todo list, enable
It was bugs in their system (which they claim they own) that let the thing happen. Their solution was for me to run a virus scan on my freebsd box. I sent them a demand letter and it appears they settled the bandwidth usage costs with my upstream provider. I'm still out my time. Maybe its time to send a another letter.
When Microsoft owned software attacked my news server, they were claiming it wasn't their problem because it wasn't their software. I think they are going to have to take a stand on this issue at sometime.
Early reports were that a squirrel could go from Virginia to the Mississippi river without ever touching the ground. The revolution battles were all near towns in the areas that had already been farmed for over 100 years and battle techniques at the time favored flat open land.
Cats will teach their kittens how to hunt. They will even work with the slower ones that just don't seem to be quick learners.
You can always go back...
Modern emulators of older hardware work great in most cases so you can run your decade old programs even on different hardware.
I've recently switched back to using TeX again. I've got 20 year old documents that I can still edit and print using TeX but I have trouble even recovering the text from word processing documents from only a few years ago. So I decided, screw it, all new stuff will go in TeX and that way I can get to it whenever I want.
I get so much spam thanks to that rfc-ignorant blacklist.
I've run my domain for over a decade and spam isn't going to come from it or any of my users and they know that if they spam, I will tell the local anti-spam baseball team where they live.
But due to the rfc-ignorant blacklist, I've got to have the useless postmaster address which of course gets a ton of spam to that address.
Publishers have the same problem that the record companies have. They could produce far more content than the shops can deal with. The RIAA isn't about music, its about getting little bits of plastic moved through the checkouts at shops. Book publishers aren't about literature, its about moving dead trees through the checkouts at shops. There are now millions of people who have better facilities to make music than the Beetles had so there is a potential for a million times more records to be produced. The RIAA's (and the shops) business model can't cope with that and neither can the book publishers.
I listened to Stephen King talk about the modern publishing business. He is convinced it has been messed up so bad for so long that no decent new author is ever likely to get published. He uses his wife's work as an example. He thinks she is a better author than he is yet the only ones that want to publish her work are using his name to sell the book. He also mentioned that the big book stores (B&N, Boarders) who stack narrow and deep are killing the hope of many authors where the smaller book shops would stock wide but shallow and would order a copy of a book or two and if they sold, would report it to the NYT top 100. Then Wal-mart would look at the things in the top 20 that they hadn't sold and buy a million copies of each which would then mess up the top 10 stats. A decade ago the data being reported for the NYT best seller list was already not very useful and he fears that it will soon be meaningless.
If you ever get a chance to hear Stephen King speak, go listen to him. He's a very good presenter even if your not into his books.
The latest tricks seem to be offering some special deal and all you have to do is login. Soon I expect most of them will be like "Dear Big Bank customer, you've been picked for 200,000 frequent miles" and the a log in screen with spots for bank and airline details and people may just give away all that info.
I've seen two messages that are heading in this direction and the banks better step up their education because more people will fall for these than the older scams.
And this isn't new.... This type of social engineering has been involved in fraud for a very long time.
Facts on /.? Now for some more info...
Albert Speer's department worked with automotive engineers under direction of Ferdinand Porsche to change the rules about what a highway should be. They did the tables of calculations for the slant of the road as well much work on bridges and grade refinements. At the time a major state road in rural US areas would consists of two lanes with about a 1 ft grass median and there were a few multi-lane highways but all the others were just built like a typical paved street. Speer's group was the one that came up with extended bridges that would never flood as well as overpasses which lead to roads that could be used at night and after snow. Speer's main job was to build the "New Rome" and what he built was supposed to inspire the whole "might of Rome" concept so he did have an advantage when it came to justifying building a huge flat road out in the middle of nowhere complete with overpasses and fancy bridges.
The slope calculations are important because a road must have a slant to get rid of the water. The problem is then the car is going to run down hill and run off the road. The result of Porsche's groups work is a slight adjustment to the suspension so that the car tracks correctly on straight roads but slanted and properly banked roads. You may notice a slight dip before right banks and small hill before left turns on well built highways. Thats there to unbalance the suspension so that it will properly track the curve and nearly every modern car will track properly.
I've seen a bridge plans distributed by the US DOT (whoever it was in the '30s) that had Albert Speer's seal on it and someone had converted all the metric to feet/in. There are many bridges in Kansas that were built using that as a basic plan. Highway construction seemed to increase dramatically once Thomas Edison lost some of his monopoly on cement.
There was some law that ended up building landing strips in nearly every county in the lower 48 States. Their major use was for many years flying checks around and I expect the early funding was either part of a post office or banking bill. The stuff about using highways for landing strips makes no sense today considering all the side markers and signs and power lines that cross the things but drivers in Alaska have to give way to planes landing on the road.
Were you watching the same show I was?
1) One dimensional characters?
The "rangers" where introduced in about 3 seconds in a way that would have lead you to understand they were just like Tolken's Rangers out of Lord of the Rings. He could have hours building that depth and miss (like Peter Jackson did) or he could assume you read the books and would understand.
There are many other examples through the series that assume you are well read and thats where the depth of the characters come from.
2) After much foreshadowing and much work to build up a very suttle idea of just how scary the bad guys are and how benvolent the good guys are he throws the whole thing away and the bad guys are so evil and the good guys are more evil than anyone else.
3) got messed up because of the stupid pseudo-cancelation on the 4th season. The result was much of the story had to be speed up and that did mess things up thanks to the stupid execs at the studios.
After watching Lexx for about the 2nd time, I asked a friend in the US about it and he claimed it was just too bad to watch. His claim was the edits were bad and the scenes and dialog jumped around. It appears that the show he was was watching was a seriously cut version of the one I saw. The one here would show enough of Zev so you knew the cuff matched the collar.
If your going to say it bad for the cheesy humor, I'm not going to argue that point.
The sale contract involves the total price including the refund and doesn't include all the small print in the refund rules. At some point a major company is going to get put out of business via class action because of this nonsense. I just hope it soon.
My breakage rate is now 100% down from 50% 6 years ago. I don't buy refund advertised stuff anymore.
How many stores are selling good on the old supply chain model anyway? For many goods Wal-Mart only pays once they are sold which makes them a huge commission shop.
The 5.8 GHz stuff costs far more so its only used in a few places but it is expanding.
I would say that for every GS I buy for my hacking use, a friend or two will buy one that will always run the defualt firmware. I've found that if I'm doing free tech support that they better buy the exact model I ask them to get because I'm not going to be dealing with lots of different types of hardware for no reason. There are a few people who just don't understand this (Hi Dad!) and get the lowest priced stuff and I refuse to fix it.
I think Linksys has dropped the ball with the L model. They need more ram and maybe more flash. Things are getting tight as it is and my systems in the field running openwrt do run out of ram from time to time.
As someone involved with the Melbourne Wireless Router Project I am recommending people not buy any Linksys routers at this time. We have been attempting to locate other routers (such as ASUS) that I feel will be better in the long run but so far I've had poor luck being able to find something that can be had a reasonable retail price.
The only way there will be a decent standard for the low voltage stuff is if the Underwriters Laboratories gets involved with it and they won't touch it unless someone can point out just how many house fires are started by cheap or poorly mixed wall warts.
From what I can see there are getting to be fewer common sizes these days. Regulated 5V is going away and 12V 1 and 2 amp are still common. Inkjets like odd power levels and phones like enough to drop it to 3.3V.
If UL had a standard for the common sizes (and left a few openings for custom future stuff), this problem would be gone by next Christmas.