I used csoft.net for a few years and gave up on them a couple of years ago.
Problems:
1) downtime. up. down. up. down.
2) changing policies. "Yes, Zope is supported as a CGI". - a few months down the road - "Dude, you can't run Zope, it sucks too much resouces."
3) The one that killed it for me, they lost my MySQL database. Suddenly my stuff isn't working. I start sending in support requests and I get a response of basically "We have no record of that database ever existing". So let me see, would a Google cache help you find it? No. It never existed according to them. Thats when I gave up and moved on.
I'm using imagineis.com right now. Support is a little slow but they always end up taking care of things. Tomcat/JSP hosting is nice. And the prices aren't bad.
I'm also using Hurricane Electric for a long time. Fast, great support (they once called me back to let me know things were fixed, at 9PM, for a $10/mo account) and few issues. I've heard that they've been a little too liberal to spammers but the proof offered didn't convince me.
At some point I'll upgrade to my own box at the end of a fat line or I'll use something like John Companies for hosting.
Speaking of, wasn't there some research posted to/. a few months back that indicated logic errors on the part of the programmer often occured around the smaller errors that programs like this one and lint often catch?
Mmm, beer and chainsaws. Great Combination!
I'll be there to watch.
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Yeah, I was thinking of the cultural differences between these American pilots and the Japanese kamikaze pilots of the WW2 era.
The Americans had to think they had a chance to survive to take the risk. The Japanese were motivated by nationalism and religion to knowingly suicide.
Of course, my viewpoint is pretty small on both sides of this, I'm probably at least slightly off base.
The Wayback Machine's archive of the site includes this little bit about Living Steel that doesn't seem to appear on the site now:
Magic
Living Steel also gathers, focuses and transmits a low frequency electromagnetic energy similar to that which our bodies run on, similar perhaps to the way in which a ruby focuses a laser. This is a measurable phenomenon that can also be felt by the human body. In ancient times there was no explanation for this other than magic. It is still magic today.
But the line you quote is from the FAQ, not the license itself, right?
I'm interested in this as well. Under my understanding of the GPL, you need to give source to anyone you provide binaries to. If I only give the two other guys on my development team binaries compiled against the GPL'd Qt Free Edition, I'm complying with the letter of the GPL. If we then turn around, purchase a commercial license of Qt and start selling this software, has either license (GPL or Qt commercial) been violated? Sure, maybe Qt's intentions for their products have been, but I don't think the licenses themselves have been.
Panotools is a wonderful toolkit for panoramas. While the main site is down, you can find mirrors. It isn't an automatic solution - you can't provide it with a series of images and let it try to automatically line them up. But with a little manual work it does a wonderful job of stitching images and correcting for basic lens distortions.
Actually, a survey grade reciever can get centimeter accuracy on the fly (while moving) by using a second stationary reciever broadcasting GPS data. Both recievers have to not only use the C/A code but the L1 (and optionally, the L2 for better performance) carrier as well.
So something like the Topcon Odyssey can claim 15mm+2ppm accuracy in real time. All this depends on 2 recievers though, lose the radio link between the two and you're back to handheld GPS accuracy until you re-establish the link.
Along the same line of thought, you could use WeirdX running as an applet inside MS's JVM to access a remote app. Eliminates the need to play with CDs or floppys and runs in the browser.
In Gimp, Image, Transforms, Offset... and hit the button Offset by (x/2, y/2). Then use the clone tool with a feathered brush to smooth and retouch the edge transitions that form a + across the image.
Although in cnosole style RPGs they probably want low res textures that all look nice together.
+Informative! - couldn't have said it better myself.
It would be great to give a decent engineer a completely separate room to mix this in, while it might not have the 'quality' of a produced live album (where they as often as not go back and fix tracks in the studio) but it would capture the show well and be a quite listenable version of what the concertgoers heard. After the first few gigs this hypothetical engineer would have the mixes dialed pretty good.
After CodeRed a paper named How to 0wn the Internet in Your Spare Time was published. In part, it said that a worm could 0wn the internet in 30 seconds given the right conditions. 10 miniutes of Saphire seems like a pretty good proof of concept demonstration, given the limitations (only infected a database server with limited market, etc). Could be fun to go back and read some of the/. naysayers, anyone have links to/. discussion?
The actual packets were 404 bytes, with 376 of that being payload and the balance packet overhead. Some of that was buffer overflow, but I think it was a little larger than 40 bytes.
posted 6:45am 2/1/03, 45 miniutes after it happened. Just scroll a little further down the page, you can't miss it, its the article with 1600 comments and counting.
I will never trust an automatic filter so as to delete a message marked as "spam" without reading, but I think it can still be useful for ranking messages, so that spam gets read less often and deleted faster.
I'll agree, while I'm enjoying wonderful accuracy from POPFile I still scan the spam classified folder for errors. Scanning a folder of spam for one or two wanted emails is much quicker than selectively deleting them mixed in 50/50 with stuff I want.
I get better than 99% accuracy with POPFile across ALL my categories of email. I think that by using more categories than just spam vs nonspam I get better accuracy. Unfortunately, not everyone seems to enjoy the same level of accuracy with it.
Not only equalizing, but sometimes a small local paper has stuff that hasn't hit the wire yet so isn't showing up in reguritized and duplicated format across those 'reputable' sources. For example, when the Washington area sniper first gained major attention one of the small papers listed on Google had the most details.
One Solution.
Seriously though, I agree with some others that maybe locks aren't the answer. A co-worker suggests a monitoring system that allows whoever is supervising the kids to know either where your son is at all times (the house arrest bracelet) or know when and which doors are opened.
The little magnetic switches for each door could set off a unique sound and / or flash sequence for that exit. Extend the system to transmit to a pager like device, that way you are notified even if your attention is elsewhere. Modify something like these car alarm pagers to show you which exit is being used and whoever is watching the kids will know exactly what is going on.
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Problems:
1) downtime. up. down. up. down.
2) changing policies. "Yes, Zope is supported as a CGI". - a few months down the road - "Dude, you can't run Zope, it sucks too much resouces."
3) The one that killed it for me, they lost my MySQL database. Suddenly my stuff isn't working. I start sending in support requests and I get a response of basically "We have no record of that database ever existing". So let me see, would a Google cache help you find it? No. It never existed according to them. Thats when I gave up and moved on.
I'm using imagineis.com right now. Support is a little slow but they always end up taking care of things. Tomcat/JSP hosting is nice. And the prices aren't bad.
I'm also using Hurricane Electric for a long time. Fast, great support (they once called me back to let me know things were fixed, at 9PM, for a $10/mo account) and few issues. I've heard that they've been a little too liberal to spammers but the proof offered didn't convince me.
At some point I'll upgrade to my own box at the end of a fat line or I'll use something like John Companies for hosting.
Speaking of, wasn't there some research posted to /. a few months back that indicated logic errors on the part of the programmer often occured around the smaller errors that programs like this one and lint often catch?
Isn't the X-Window already obsolete and suffering from a fork?
Mmm, beer and chainsaws. Great Combination! I'll be there to watch.
Yeah, I was thinking of the cultural differences between these American pilots and the Japanese kamikaze pilots of the WW2 era. The Americans had to think they had a chance to survive to take the risk. The Japanese were motivated by nationalism and religion to knowingly suicide. Of course, my viewpoint is pretty small on both sides of this, I'm probably at least slightly off base.
I'm interested in this as well. Under my understanding of the GPL, you need to give source to anyone you provide binaries to. If I only give the two other guys on my development team binaries compiled against the GPL'd Qt Free Edition, I'm complying with the letter of the GPL. If we then turn around, purchase a commercial license of Qt and start selling this software, has either license (GPL or Qt commercial) been violated? Sure, maybe Qt's intentions for their products have been, but I don't think the licenses themselves have been.
I guess this is why we have so many lawyers.
Panotools is a wonderful toolkit for panoramas. While the main site is down, you can find mirrors. It isn't an automatic solution - you can't provide it with a series of images and let it try to automatically line them up. But with a little manual work it does a wonderful job of stitching images and correcting for basic lens distortions.
Javad makes survey grade dual mode systems. But they're priced well out of the range of the average consumer.
So something like the Topcon Odyssey can claim 15mm+2ppm accuracy in real time. All this depends on 2 recievers though, lose the radio link between the two and you're back to handheld GPS accuracy until you re-establish the link.
Along the same line of thought, you could use WeirdX running as an applet inside MS's JVM to access a remote app. Eliminates the need to play with CDs or floppys and runs in the browser.
Although in cnosole style RPGs they probably want low res textures that all look nice together.
It would be great to give a decent engineer a completely separate room to mix this in, while it might not have the 'quality' of a produced live album (where they as often as not go back and fix tracks in the studio) but it would capture the show well and be a quite listenable version of what the concertgoers heard. After the first few gigs this hypothetical engineer would have the mixes dialed pretty good.
After CodeRed a paper named How to 0wn the Internet in Your Spare Time was published. In part, it said that a worm could 0wn the internet in 30 seconds given the right conditions. 10 miniutes of Saphire seems like a pretty good proof of concept demonstration, given the limitations (only infected a database server with limited market, etc). Could be fun to go back and read some of the /. naysayers, anyone have links to /. discussion?
The actual packets were 404 bytes, with 376 of that being payload and the balance packet overhead. Some of that was buffer overflow, but I think it was a little larger than 40 bytes.
posted 6:45am 2/1/03, 45 miniutes after it happened. Just scroll a little further down the page, you can't miss it, its the article with 1600 comments and counting.
http://security.greymagic.com/misc/globalDgArg/ - I can display arbitrary files from my hard drive in the javascript dialog. Other exploits don't seem to work.
http://sec.greymagic.com/adv/gm012-ie/vobjcache.as p - Clipboard exploit works, others fail.
These are two near the top of the list that work, while they aren't remote code exploits they illustrate continuing security problems.
I get better than 99% accuracy with POPFile across ALL my categories of email. I think that by using more categories than just spam vs nonspam I get better accuracy. Unfortunately, not everyone seems to enjoy the same level of accuracy with it.
Maybe I'll consider purchasing games from Blizzard when they drop their absurd lawsuit against the bnetd project.
Convert various stuff to SVG
Not only equalizing, but sometimes a small local paper has stuff that hasn't hit the wire yet so isn't showing up in reguritized and duplicated format across those 'reputable' sources. For example, when the Washington area sniper first gained major attention one of the small papers listed on Google had the most details.
Best advice here. A search of google groups yields one thread that points to Undo existing in the late sixties.
One Solution. Seriously though, I agree with some others that maybe locks aren't the answer. A co-worker suggests a monitoring system that allows whoever is supervising the kids to know either where your son is at all times (the house arrest bracelet) or know when and which doors are opened. The little magnetic switches for each door could set off a unique sound and / or flash sequence for that exit. Extend the system to transmit to a pager like device, that way you are notified even if your attention is elsewhere. Modify something like these car alarm pagers to show you which exit is being used and whoever is watching the kids will know exactly what is going on.