Just for everyones information, this is something BIG inside here. They've been coming over the PA and telling us about it, how great it is, and everything. The stories on the internal news sites are flying, touting the new system (which btw is made right here in Poughkeepsie)
They even celebrated by giving all the employees free cake today (from 11:30-1:00)
Has anyone come across any really interest results for searches on images.google? One of the oddest ones ive come across these days has been searches for "bruise"
1000 hits here... (dont ask about my paths... i run apache on my windows machine, and port forward. its easier that way for me, regardless on how stupid it looks:) )
I, also, am an employee of big blue. Right now my entire plant is on Token Ring, and there are a good number of Linux machines on the network. I've not heard of any problems. However, the majority of the people who run it, run RedHat, SuSE or TurboLinux from what I've read on our internal mailing list. Havent heard of any debian users
Heh, i considered it 'old news' because it was from last night at 9pm..
But they'd probably want more control
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The problem I see with this is that if a company as big as IBM wants to use something like Linux, they're going to want some kind of control of the direction it goes. Companies have been trying to get Linus to loosen his 'control' of the kernel for a while now. No company with smart leadership will drop support for a product that they have complete power over, in favor of an OS where they have little-to-no control over the direction that it takes.
However, we've seen that IBM has put a fairly good amount of time, money, and effort into making Linux compatable with their products, and their products compatable with linux itself. But so far, I just don't seem them dropping AIX for Linux anytime soon. Not until the control over the linux kernel becomes more decentralized.
All i can think is like a hoverboard from bttf2:) This guy is saying that people will buy and use it if its legal. I remember after bttf2, zemeckis told ppl interviewing him that hoverboards were real, but the toy companies were forced to hold them back because of fears and complaints from parents of children who had gotten injured using them.
if it is a hoverboard, f*ck it. im buying one. i dont care how much it costs.
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Hey Mike, good to see you in on this too. I just was about to go off to sci.geo to let you know about this post here. If anyone can answer some of the questions, it's definately you.
Re:Kinda fun actually... I should know, I'm doing
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You're entitled to your opinion, but I won't consider said opinion a well informed one until you've actually spent some time investigating the sport.
Its quite popular, but (un)fortunately, these GeoCaches make it a bit easier for those who are navigationally challenged:)
Kinda fun actually... I should know, I'm doing it
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This has been around since the beginning of May when SA was turned off. It evolved from another sport calld 'letterboxing' where they did stuff like this but with maps, compasses, etc.
I've been following the sport for quite a while, right since it started up, and so far theres been next to no problems with 'people walking off with the bucket' so to speak. Some people choose to leave 'prizes' in the bucket, while some choose to leave just a log book. One of the first stashes held a used GPS unit (i guess the guy upgraded and put his old one in the pot). One of my best friends is gonna go plant one in the middle of the desert with a pad and a couple of pens. not every bucket is going to house a pot of gold.
Think about it though... most people aren't going to go on a web site, look up their local area, find a local stash. drive for a half hour to the general area, and spend another hour looking for a small sealed bucket in a relatively well hidden area unless they plan on writing in the log book and following the rules.
The people who fuck shit up like this are the one who find it without knowing what it is. Some jerkoff is going to go chasing after a missed frisbee and find it. come to the conclusion (in a drunken stupor of course) that this thing is full of all neat kinds of goodies! lets steal it!
You dont have to worry about people doing shit like that if you put it in a good place. Dont put them where the average schmoe is going to find it. The only people who will find it then are the ones who WANT to make an effort to find it. And I dont know about you, but i dont know of many people who will waste 3 hours of time just to steal a bucket with some batteries and some MREs.
Just so you know, as i write this, right next to me is a stash. Ive been putting it together for a week. 2gallon bucket. a log book. some extra pens, and some 'goodies' which in total arent worth more than about $10. I spent a couple of hours in a bookstore looking at hiking/backpacking guides, and another two hours scouting sites in the local area. This sucker is probably getting planted later this weekend. There arent any for me to find yet, so I'm going to do MY best in putting one down so someone else can find it.
This is actually the subject of my Capping course at Marist College.
If you're looking for a book about crypto and society, i would suggest a book by Whitfield Diffie himself called Privacy on the Line, by MIT press. Its a good read, lots of background info about crypto, why they think its necessary,and how its affecting society.
I think I speak for a lot of people when i say that a movie simply could NOT do Snow Crash justice.
There are too many constraints which would pull down the potential of the movie. Cost of course being one, but time is the most important one. There is TOO much going on in the novel to cram it into 2 hours (2.5? 3? 5? 10? still not enough).
If there was a movie adaptation of Snow Crash, I'd almost be afraid to see it. I'd be horribly scared to think of how much it would be butchered to fit the constraints of time and money...
If it has to be done, I just hope they do it as best that they can; but to me it still won't be as good as it could be.
I've never liked HotMail at all really, their spam filters dont pick up ANYTHING, and I currently use the Yahoo mail service. They seem fairly reliable and right now I'm quite happy with them. Above someone talks about Netscape's being rather flaky, but I dont remember any kind of problems so far with Yahoo.
Have there been any that anyone can recall? Only Yahoo incident I remember is their page being hacked like 3-4 years ago
There was actually a time once when i thought I could trust a cursor. This is absolutely ridiculous... I dont care if they say they're not using the information, the fact is that someday it COULD be used. God only knows what they're actually doing with it...
Does anyplace use Comet Cursors these days anyway? The only place I've seen that uses it is Garfield.com
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Just for everyones information, this is something BIG inside here. They've been coming over the PA and telling us about it, how great it is, and everything. The stories on the internal news sites are flying, touting the new system (which btw is made right here in Poughkeepsie)
They even celebrated by giving all the employees free cake today (from 11:30-1:00)
mmmm. free cake.
Has anyone come across any really interest results for searches on images.google? One of the oddest ones ive come across these days has been searches for "bruise"
gambit32@endgame:/trustno1/edrive/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/logs$ grep "
:) )
24." * | grep -v default.ida | grep -v XXXXXXX | cut -d [ -f 3- | sort | uniq |
wc -l
1000
1000 hits here... (dont ask about my paths... i run apache on my windows machine, and port forward. its easier that way for me, regardless on how stupid it looks
Well, reading one of yer previous comments, unless you sign with a fake -sig, i've got no clue who you are.
bcnu.
Not on that subnet. looks like 90% of that class A is in Mexico
/me ponders who you be.
/me thinks he's got a good idea.
:)
Some of the lines from the registry it tries to import:
e rs \Interfaces Concept Virus(CV) V.5, Copyright(C)2001 R.P.China MIME-Version: 1.0
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Paramet
Search for 'Concept Virus' to see if you're infected, I guess.
Still have access to one of the systems i used to run at my alma mater. im getting SCREENFULLS of logs scrolling by, super fast. Many many hits.
This looks bad.
The 'Fuck PoisonBox' you're getting is due to the Sadmind virus.
o r.sadmind.html
More at:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdo
If its scanning subnets, this could very well explain why I cant reach my machine at home (Roadrunner).
Its probably generation a sh*tload of traffic.
Can anyone on 24.x.x.x verify?
I, also, am an employee of big blue. Right now my entire plant is on Token Ring, and there are a good number of Linux machines on the network. I've not heard of any problems. However, the majority of the people who run it, run RedHat, SuSE or TurboLinux from what I've read on our internal mailing list. Havent heard of any debian users
bepaid.com was located in the north tower i believe. their web site no longer responds.
Heh, i considered it 'old news' because it was from last night at 9pm..
The problem I see with this is that if a company as big as IBM wants to use something like Linux, they're going to want some kind of control of the direction it goes. Companies have been trying to get Linus to loosen his 'control' of the kernel for a while now. No company with smart leadership will drop support for a product that they have complete power over, in favor of an OS where they have little-to-no control over the direction that it takes.
However, we've seen that IBM has put a fairly good amount of time, money, and effort into making Linux compatable with their products, and their products compatable with linux itself. But so far, I just don't seem them dropping AIX for Linux anytime soon. Not until the control over the linux kernel becomes more decentralized.
yeah but how many of these would be able to be built for under $2000 from the contents of a couple of duffle bags?
All i can think is like a hoverboard from bttf2 :) This guy is saying that people will buy and use it if its legal. I remember after bttf2, zemeckis told ppl interviewing him that hoverboards were real, but the toy companies were forced to hold them back because of fears and complaints from parents of children who had gotten injured using them.
if it is a hoverboard, f*ck it. im buying one. i dont care how much it costs.
Hey Mike, good to see you in on this too. I just was about to go off to sci.geo to let you know about this post here. If anyone can answer some of the questions, it's definately you.
You're entitled to your opinion, but I won't consider said opinion a well informed one until you've actually spent some time investigating the sport.
Go on Yahoo and look up "Letterboxing"
:)
Its quite popular, but (un)fortunately, these GeoCaches make it a bit easier for those who are navigationally challenged
This has been around since the beginning of May when SA was turned off. It evolved from another sport calld 'letterboxing' where they did stuff like this but with maps, compasses, etc.
I've been following the sport for quite a while, right since it started up, and so far theres been next to no problems with 'people walking off with the bucket' so to speak. Some people choose to leave 'prizes' in the bucket, while some choose to leave just a log book. One of the first stashes held a used GPS unit (i guess the guy upgraded and put his old one in the pot). One of my best friends is gonna go plant one in the middle of the desert with a pad and a couple of pens. not every bucket is going to house a pot of gold.
Think about it though... most people aren't going to go on a web site, look up their local area, find a local stash. drive for a half hour to the general area, and spend another hour looking for a small sealed bucket in a relatively well hidden area unless they plan on writing in the log book and following the rules.
The people who fuck shit up like this are the one who find it without knowing what it is. Some jerkoff is going to go chasing after a missed frisbee and find it. come to the conclusion (in a drunken stupor of course) that this thing is full of all neat kinds of goodies! lets steal it!
You dont have to worry about people doing shit like that if you put it in a good place. Dont put them where the average schmoe is going to find it. The only people who will find it then are the ones who WANT to make an effort to find it. And I dont know about you, but i dont know of many people who will waste 3 hours of time just to steal a bucket with some batteries and some MREs.
Just so you know, as i write this, right next to me is a stash. Ive been putting it together for a week. 2gallon bucket. a log book. some extra pens, and some 'goodies' which in total arent worth more than about $10. I spent a couple of hours in a bookstore looking at hiking/backpacking guides, and another two hours scouting sites in the local area. This sucker is probably getting planted later this weekend. There arent any for me to find yet, so I'm going to do MY best in putting one down so someone else can find it.
This is actually the subject of my Capping course at Marist College.
If you're looking for a book about crypto and society, i would suggest a book by Whitfield Diffie himself called Privacy on the Line, by MIT press. Its a good read, lots of background info about crypto, why they think its necessary,and how its affecting society.
Hope this helps.
I think I speak for a lot of people when i say that a movie simply could NOT do Snow Crash justice.
There are too many constraints which would pull down the potential of the movie. Cost of course being one, but time is the most important one. There is TOO much going on in the novel to cram it into 2 hours (2.5? 3? 5? 10? still not enough).
If there was a movie adaptation of Snow Crash, I'd almost be afraid to see it. I'd be horribly scared to think of how much it would be butchered to fit the constraints of time and money...
If it has to be done, I just hope they do it as best that they can; but to me it still won't be as good as it could be.
Reminds me of when Chessmaster 6500 beat me in 5 moves when it was set on level novice.
I'm a REALLY bad chess player.
I've never liked HotMail at all really, their spam filters dont pick up ANYTHING, and I currently use the Yahoo mail service. They seem fairly reliable and right now I'm quite happy with them. Above someone talks about Netscape's being rather flaky, but I dont remember any kind of problems so far with Yahoo.
Have there been any that anyone can recall? Only Yahoo incident I remember is their page being hacked like 3-4 years ago
What kind of processor is in this thing? It just says RISC? I would think they'd tell a bit more
There was actually a time once when i thought I could trust a cursor. This is absolutely ridiculous... I dont care if they say they're not using the information, the fact is that someday it COULD be used. God only knows what they're actually doing with it...
Does anyplace use Comet Cursors these days anyway? The only place I've seen that uses it is Garfield.com