But, please, do not expect miracles from people with untreatable medical conditions.
It's taken over 20 years of conditioning myself to not interject in every conversation around me. And, it's taken nearly as long to learn when the other person in a conversation wishes to end it and move on instead of listening to me go on and on. Those are just 2 of the Aspy traits I've learned to overcome. There are dozens more that are works in progress. And, it is ALWAYS a relief when I can drop these artificial behavior patterns and be my unrestricted self.
You can mask who you are for the benefit of those you work and live with. But, you just can't change how you think deep down in the way your brain is "wired". No amount of medication or behavior modification techniques can change how your mind works permanently. It's just a mask or filter over the top of the source modifying the results on output.
I was the IMP of MooseHead SLED! How ya doing Yuki? I stopped running it when WoW came out and the average daily player population dropped down to 3 total. The machine it ran on near the end of its lifespan still sits in my basement gathering dust. But, the HD crashed and I just can't seem to get up to rescue booting it to tar up the directory structure for posterity.
Remember the days when we were on the Ottawa Freenet BBS front page and there were over 200 people on at a time? I think my favorite thing was random IMM initiated Arena matches and being able to bet on which participant you thought would win. I probably injected a few thousand gold into the game economy by losing those bets.
Also, ROM 2.4b was actually based on MHS's code and not vice versa. Russ Taylor used to work on the MHS code with me and forked off the MHS code base (which started as ROM 2.3) when he released ROM 2.4.
Use of a copy of the original work is not at issue. When the license comes into play is in making and distributing copies without abiding by the terms of the license you received the work under.
If the license says you are authorized to modify the original and distribute said modification as long as you abide by the license's terms and you do not that is copyright infringement. That differs from most EULAs which do not grant a right to duplicate or distribute the work.
Most people have no clue and would be readily infected. I would go a step further and say that people would voluntarily install botnet applications pushed by the military on their systems out of some sort of convoluted sense of doing their patriotic duty. Not sure if you saw the rodeo scene in Borat, but there are some serious sheeple out there. -R
Such a count does not require a DB write per transaction ( nail++ ). Such minor amounts of data are better left memory resident if they are wiped after a quantifier is reached. DB writes are for the purpose of keeping state. In your example the only reason to keep state is should the machine fail and the boxes be partially filled the remaining count necessary to complete the box needs to be known. That is better done with a physical weight measurement than a DB query.
Asynch writes are useful for keeping history on data that may be used to recreate or replay a period of time of data flow that is more dependant upon trending and rate than actual values. Say you have an automated trading system and you're working on various reaction algorithms based on market events. Recording a real-time stream of market data for playback during system testing is a perfect use for asynch commits. You want a replayable record of market data flow but the order it came in and even missing some records isn't as important as the data set as a whole.
by Robert Ludlum. The primary assassin in the book encountered a private detective who would not willingly give up the information he had on the assassin's target. The PD bragged about how his data was encrypted on his laptop and it used a fingerprint scanner. The assassin promptly cut off the PD's index finger and took the laptop with him.
Cubed with diced potatoes and onions. Fry in a bit of butter. When it's nearly done toss in a few cubes of Velveeta. As soon as the "cheese" melts toss it on a plate and enjoy! I prefer some pickled jalapeños with mine and a nice cold Diet Pepsi.
They are suing people who are NOT GUILTY of what they are charging them with. The defendants being in these groups indicates they are unable to afford proper legal counsel and are forced to settle with the RIAA for thousands of dollars for doing absolutely nothing wrong. They choose to settle because a defense lawyer costs even more and a judgement against them would be even more. It's a form of extortion utilizing the legal system as its muscle.
Besides, here is a proposal: human feces, like a lot of feces out there, generate methane. Why not harness that small amount of methane to propel said "dung" back into the Earth atmosphere?
Because the methane is produced when the dung biodegrades. The microbes that perform this function are severly hampered by being frozen solid. So, unless you're proposing building a methane capture and concentration unit on the ISS as well as supplying enough O2 required for combustion of the methane, your proposal is fairly infeasible.
-Rusty
Oh they want online poker to flourish, no doubt about it. The issue comes in controlling the flow of cash through play of the game. If they can get people excited and playing online but leave them wanting to play for real money (because it's not allowed online), their only choice will be a U.S. based* brick and mortar casino. It's all about power as having it means you get the money that follows.
* Yes I know about the corner cases for those living near Canada or the gulf. But the U.S. casino companies have their fingers in those ventures too.
Unless Harrah's or Jack Binion or Trump are who you consider to be God, that's way off base. It was sponsored by and lobbied for by US brick and mortar gambling operations. The tax and moral issues are red herrings to distract people from who is really preventing them from their chosen leisure time activity.
The problem with this is pre-supplied voting and paid results. Currently party workers can not walk into the polling place with you and "help you vote". They can supply a sample ballot to show you what they suggest but they can't push/punch/check the buttons/boxes for you allowing the voter a measure of freedom in the privacy of the polling station.
With pre-filled out voting forms they could trade payment with people for the "service" of submitting the ballot they supply. You get paid if you give up your right to choose and turn in their form instead. They could easily stuff the ballot box by a known amount. Providing privacy and anomnimity to each voter is one of the key things that make free elections work and more difficult to corrupt.
Folding@Home is still pretty neat though - the whole "use your spare CPU cycles to (potentially) find cures for various nasty things"
I think you should have said:
Folding@Home is still pretty neat though - the whole "use your spare CPU cycles to (potentially) find cures for various nasty things and enrich the patent portfolios of drug manufacturers"
This is just one more example of how offshoring development causes disorganization and a lack of control in timeliness and quality of product. You can not base complex software development in remote locations because "it's cheaper" and expect not to have problems with issues related to poor communication, timeliness and product quality. There is too much loss of control of the development process and significantly less motivation for quality and success when there is little downside to failure. The company closes your outsourcing center? Move onto the next sucker who thinks it's a good idea and is hiring.
Until company executives see the financial impact that losses from these ventures produce the people taking advantage of the situation will continue to profit and not produce.
Can you tell I think outsourcing offshore is one of the stupidest decisions a company can make? And, it's not due to the lost jobs in the U.S. that I have my opinion.
Where I work it's a mixed environment. We have some applications that require either big iron 12 and 16 way Sun boxes running Oracle 10g. We have other applications that require the high availability and scalability of Oracle RAC distributed across several RHAS nodes. We also have internal applications that actually perform better with SleepyCat (BDB) running locally and replicating to failover nodes. There are also lots of web based applications that hum along just fine with MySQL and PostgreSQL as their data stores. The mainframe has a few DB2 instances and some of the (rare) MS Windows apps tend to use MSSQL servers in failover clusters.
Point being, use the right DB for the right purpose. Oracle is a niche player on the higher end of the cost, reliability and performance scale and we use it for those needs. Of course, the skillset in the DBA group is varied as well. They usually specialize in one product and back someone (or 2) up on other DBMS.
Man, we must be totally cutting edge where I work. We have thousands of servers (yes plural) and 75% of them are running an enterprise Linux distribution according to the report I ran yesterday morning. Mission critical, enterprise infrastructure would be an understatement. Lets just say billions of dollars of value of electronic trades move through this stuff daily. So much for "not quite ready", eh?
Belkin makes a card reader, the part number is F8E461. It hooks into the dock port and writes from a bunch of memory card formats to the iPod HD. Not a direct cable, but close to the next best thing and works without modifying your camera choice or your iPod. I found them for about $84 without searching too hard.
Motorola used to be an all Mac shop. The last remnants were flushed out of the corporate headquarters in 1999. They gave away a lot of good machines to schools in Chicago that had no computers. The rest went onto a pallet that some refuse hauler took away along with a bunch of Sun3 hardware.
I must be lucky. My boss and his boss are both former team members of my group. They got promoted for showing good leadership, but have been in the trenches with me in the past. This is common practice at our company where climbing the corporate ladder involves performing well at your job and earning the promotion.
They are driving smaller online retailers out of business, they encourage purchasing of cheap foreign imports and they have a negative cash flow into the economy in the form of low wages and outsourced jobs.
I boycott shopping at Amazon.com in the same manner that I do for brick and mortar shopping at Walmart. Give the small guys your business and help maintain a strong U.S. economy.
You are assuming that the device performing the NAT'ing also has routes from the public IP to the private network and will pass that traffic untranslated. That is a big assumption, especially on a device that is incapable of performing such routing. If the only function of the device is to NAT then you can not pass traffic to the internal side of the network in any manner without matching one of the NAT rules first.
I just tested your theory. I placed a box on the public side of my connection giving it an IP in the same subnet as the public interface. It was directly attached to the same switch and placed in the same VLAN. I made the IP of the NAT device's public interface the second machine's default route. I then tried to pass traffic to any host on the private side network of the NAT device. Snooping both networks on a span port on each switch showed no traffic passing through the NAT device..(ignore) Allow WAN,* LAN,10.0.0.1 TCP,25.(because) Allow WAN,* LAN,10.0.0.31 TCP,4000-23.(slashcode) Allow WAN,* LAN,10.0.0.31 TCP,4000.(sucks) Allow WAN,* LAN,10.0.0.1 TCP,22.(big hairy) Allow WAN,* WAN ICMP,8.(donkey) Allow WAN,* LAN,10.0.0.1 *,53.(gonads) Allow WAN,* LAN,10.0.0.17 *,6112.(often) Allow WAN,*:6881-6889 LAN,*:6881-6889
There are 2 routes on this device, one for the 10/8 network on the private interface and the default route on the public interface. IP forwarding is not enabled. Oh, and the public interface uses PPPoE, so compromise anything else on this same segment and try to pass traffic to it without hitting a device that will apply its own routing rules overriding your static route.
Got no firewall, only a NAT device and I'm still quite happy... -Rusty
The problem is the "pass all" rule. If you're destination is an unroutable IP then the traffic will never make it back to your border router as the reply packets will be dumped in the bit bucket. Your case applies only if the target of the NAT has a routable IP.
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But, please, do not expect miracles from people with untreatable medical conditions.
It's taken over 20 years of conditioning myself to not interject in every conversation around me. And, it's taken nearly as long to learn when the other person in a conversation wishes to end it and move on instead of listening to me go on and on. Those are just 2 of the Aspy traits I've learned to overcome. There are dozens more that are works in progress. And, it is ALWAYS a relief when I can drop these artificial behavior patterns and be my unrestricted self.
You can mask who you are for the benefit of those you work and live with. But, you just can't change how you think deep down in the way your brain is "wired". No amount of medication or behavior modification techniques can change how your mind works permanently. It's just a mask or filter over the top of the source modifying the results on output.
I was the IMP of MooseHead SLED! How ya doing Yuki? I stopped running it when WoW came out and the average daily player population dropped down to 3 total. The machine it ran on near the end of its lifespan still sits in my basement gathering dust. But, the HD crashed and I just can't seem to get up to rescue booting it to tar up the directory structure for posterity.
Remember the days when we were on the Ottawa Freenet BBS front page and there were over 200 people on at a time? I think my favorite thing was random IMM initiated Arena matches and being able to bet on which participant you thought would win. I probably injected a few thousand gold into the game economy by losing those bets.
Also, ROM 2.4b was actually based on MHS's code and not vice versa. Russ Taylor used to work on the MHS code with me and forked off the MHS code base (which started as ROM 2.3) when he released ROM 2.4.
Use of a copy of the original work is not at issue. When the license comes into play is in making and distributing copies without abiding by the terms of the license you received the work under.
If the license says you are authorized to modify the original and distribute said modification as long as you abide by the license's terms and you do not that is copyright infringement. That differs from most EULAs which do not grant a right to duplicate or distribute the work.
-R
Such a count does not require a DB write per transaction ( nail++ ). Such minor amounts of data are better left memory resident if they are wiped after a quantifier is reached. DB writes are for the purpose of keeping state. In your example the only reason to keep state is should the machine fail and the boxes be partially filled the remaining count necessary to complete the box needs to be known. That is better done with a physical weight measurement than a DB query.
Asynch writes are useful for keeping history on data that may be used to recreate or replay a period of time of data flow that is more dependant upon trending and rate than actual values. Say you have an automated trading system and you're working on various reaction algorithms based on market events. Recording a real-time stream of market data for playback during system testing is a perfect use for asynch commits. You want a replayable record of market data flow but the order it came in and even missing some records isn't as important as the data set as a whole.
The auction ended with the price doubling in the last 20 minutes. It sold for $131,700.00
- The Sigma Protocol
by Robert Ludlum. The primary assassin in the book encountered a private detective who would not willingly give up the information he had on the assassin's target. The PD bragged about how his data was encrypted on his laptop and it used a fingerprint scanner. The assassin promptly cut off the PD's index finger and took the laptop with him.s/\s+co/\s+wo/
Cubed with diced potatoes and onions. Fry in a bit of butter. When it's nearly done toss in a few cubes of Velveeta. As soon as the "cheese" melts toss it on a plate and enjoy! I prefer some pickled jalapeños with mine and a nice cold Diet Pepsi.
*drool*
They are suing people who are NOT GUILTY of what they are charging them with. The defendants being in these groups indicates they are unable to afford proper legal counsel and are forced to settle with the RIAA for thousands of dollars for doing absolutely nothing wrong. They choose to settle because a defense lawyer costs even more and a judgement against them would be even more. It's a form of extortion utilizing the legal system as its muscle.
Besides, here is a proposal: human feces, like a lot of feces out there, generate methane. Why not harness that small amount of methane to propel said "dung" back into the Earth atmosphere?
Because the methane is produced when the dung biodegrades. The microbes that perform this function are severly hampered by being frozen solid. So, unless you're proposing building a methane capture and concentration unit on the ISS as well as supplying enough O2 required for combustion of the methane, your proposal is fairly infeasible.
-Rusty
Oh they want online poker to flourish, no doubt about it. The issue comes in controlling the flow of cash through play of the game. If they can get people excited and playing online but leave them wanting to play for real money (because it's not allowed online), their only choice will be a U.S. based* brick and mortar casino. It's all about power as having it means you get the money that follows.
* Yes I know about the corner cases for those living near Canada or the gulf. But the U.S. casino companies have their fingers in those ventures too.
Unless Harrah's or Jack Binion or Trump are who you consider to be God, that's way off base. It was sponsored by and lobbied for by US brick and mortar gambling operations. The tax and moral issues are red herrings to distract people from who is really preventing them from their chosen leisure time activity.
The problem with this is pre-supplied voting and paid results. Currently party workers can not walk into the polling place with you and "help you vote". They can supply a sample ballot to show you what they suggest but they can't push/punch/check the buttons/boxes for you allowing the voter a measure of freedom in the privacy of the polling station.
With pre-filled out voting forms they could trade payment with people for the "service" of submitting the ballot they supply. You get paid if you give up your right to choose and turn in their form instead. They could easily stuff the ballot box by a known amount. Providing privacy and anomnimity to each voter is one of the key things that make free elections work and more difficult to corrupt.
-R
Folding@Home is still pretty neat though - the whole "use your spare CPU cycles to (potentially) find cures for various nasty things"
I think you should have said:
Folding@Home is still pretty neat though - the whole "use your spare CPU cycles to (potentially) find cures for various nasty things and enrich the patent portfolios of drug manufacturers"
HTH HAND
-R
You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish.
This is just one more example of how offshoring development causes disorganization and a lack of control in timeliness and quality of product. You can not base complex software development in remote locations because "it's cheaper" and expect not to have problems with issues related to poor communication, timeliness and product quality. There is too much loss of control of the development process and significantly less motivation for quality and success when there is little downside to failure. The company closes your outsourcing center? Move onto the next sucker who thinks it's a good idea and is hiring.
Until company executives see the financial impact that losses from these ventures produce the people taking advantage of the situation will continue to profit and not produce.
Can you tell I think outsourcing offshore is one of the stupidest decisions a company can make? And, it's not due to the lost jobs in the U.S. that I have my opinion.
Where I work it's a mixed environment. We have some applications that require either big iron 12 and 16 way Sun boxes running Oracle 10g. We have other applications that require the high availability and scalability of Oracle RAC distributed across several RHAS nodes. We also have internal applications that actually perform better with SleepyCat (BDB) running locally and replicating to failover nodes. There are also lots of web based applications that hum along just fine with MySQL and PostgreSQL as their data stores. The mainframe has a few DB2 instances and some of the (rare) MS Windows apps tend to use MSSQL servers in failover clusters.
Point being, use the right DB for the right purpose. Oracle is a niche player on the higher end of the cost, reliability and performance scale and we use it for those needs. Of course, the skillset in the DBA group is varied as well. They usually specialize in one product and back someone (or 2) up on other DBMS.
Man, we must be totally cutting edge where I work. We have thousands of servers (yes plural) and 75% of them are running an enterprise Linux distribution according to the report I ran yesterday morning. Mission critical, enterprise infrastructure would be an understatement. Lets just say billions of dollars of value of electronic trades move through this stuff daily. So much for "not quite ready", eh?
Belkin makes a card reader, the part number is F8E461. It hooks into the dock port and writes from a bunch of memory card formats to the iPod HD. Not a direct cable, but close to the next best thing and works without modifying your camera choice or your iPod. I found them for about $84 without searching too hard.
Motorola used to be an all Mac shop. The last remnants were flushed out of the corporate headquarters in 1999. They gave away a lot of good machines to schools in Chicago that had no computers. The rest went onto a pallet that some refuse hauler took away along with a bunch of Sun3 hardware.
I must be lucky. My boss and his boss are both former team members of my group. They got promoted for showing good leadership, but have been in the trenches with me in the past. This is common practice at our company where climbing the corporate ladder involves performing well at your job and earning the promotion.
They are driving smaller online retailers out of business, they encourage purchasing of cheap foreign imports and they have a negative cash flow into the economy in the form of low wages and outsourced jobs.
I boycott shopping at Amazon.com in the same manner that I do for brick and mortar shopping at Walmart. Give the small guys your business and help maintain a strong U.S. economy.
You are assuming that the device performing the NAT'ing also has routes from the public IP to the private network and will pass that traffic untranslated. That is a big assumption, especially on a device that is incapable of performing such routing. If the only function of the device is to NAT then you can not pass traffic to the internal side of the network in any manner without matching one of the NAT rules first.
.(ignore) Allow WAN,* LAN,10.0.0.1 TCP,25 .(because) Allow WAN,* LAN,10.0.0.31 TCP,4000-23 .(slashcode) Allow WAN,* LAN,10.0.0.31 TCP,4000 .(sucks) Allow WAN,* LAN,10.0.0.1 TCP,22 .(big hairy) Allow WAN,* WAN ICMP,8 .(donkey) Allow WAN,* LAN,10.0.0.1 *,53 .(gonads) Allow WAN,* LAN,10.0.0.17 *,6112 .(often) Allow WAN,*:6881-6889 LAN,*:6881-6889
I just tested your theory. I placed a box on the public side of my connection giving it an IP in the same subnet as the public interface. It was directly attached to the same switch and placed in the same VLAN. I made the IP of the NAT device's public interface the second machine's default route. I then tried to pass traffic to any host on the private side network of the NAT device. Snooping both networks on a span port on each switch showed no traffic passing through the NAT device.
There are 2 routes on this device, one for the 10/8 network on the private interface and the default route on the public interface. IP forwarding is not enabled. Oh, and the public interface uses PPPoE, so compromise anything else on this same segment and try to pass traffic to it without hitting a device that will apply its own routing rules overriding your static route.
Got no firewall, only a NAT device and I'm still quite happy...
-Rusty
The problem is the "pass all" rule. If you're destination is an unroutable IP then the traffic will never make it back to your border router as the reply packets will be dumped in the bit bucket. Your case applies only if the target of the NAT has a routable IP.