Well, we only had three people show up, so it was much smaller than the dozen that said they were going to.
Of course, nobody popped an email to me, so I couldn't send them reminders (none of the folks have visible emails in their profiles) so, what do ya do?
We didn't get the swag until a week after the party, although it did arrive via two-day air. Interesting that.
But we had fun, and drank good beer and ate good pizza, and swapped some fun stories.
Really, it was all about the beer and pizza, and that made it a win.
Yes, because NASA never installed any sensors backwards, thus never indicating when to pop open a drag 'chute.
Not that I'm not a fan of NASA. I am. I own the Space Shuttle Operators Manual, and when I was 11 (when I got it) I probably could have flown the shuttle, or at least co-piloted that darn thing.
Point is, mistakes happen. That's fine. What's great about Carmak and co. is that they tend to not only admit, but they also learn from them. Because only half the fun in building rockets is watching 'em blow up.
Odd - because if you've got a PS2/keyboard cable snaking out of it, you could be getting power from that port as well.
Heck, you could probably throw in a couple of low-voltage-drop diodes inline with the power leads from both the gameport and the ps2 port, and supply your FLCS/F-22 from either supply no matter what.
"The data is back up in El Segundo. I do believe we are a little bit behind in the count. I think we delayed some of the propellant loading activities," says Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX vice president of business development. "It looks good for today, which is obviously good news."
How far behind the countdown is running or the target launch time isn't clear at the moment.
Oooh, and this just happened to me a few weeks ago. well, not quite, but close enough.
I had an LVM container that sat on a RAID-1 volume go bad.
the lvm tools couldn't reconstruct the container, so I effectively 'lost' my partitions.
There wasn't any program I could find which would scan the raid volume for the data partitions, so I ended up cobbling one together on my own, out of the sources in the ext2-tools distro.
And yes, I did get my data back, and no, i'm no longer using LVM containers.
"DOS is more secure than Linux by just about any reasonably sane metric you can come up with [it]."
Except that when you boot *DOS, you're automagically the superuser. Or Joe is. Or grandma. Or whomever.
Or maybe user privleges aren't a sane metric to judge security by?
How about just overwriting the interrupt vector table with a quick.COM program? That'll certainly bring any system to its knees. But I suppose that kmem security is really just an issue with user privlege escalation. And we've covered that.
But there are certainly any number of virus and trojan type exploits for *DOS. Or perhaps these aren't sane metrics either?
I see your popular song, and raise you one Broadway Musical:
And I said to myself, sit down! Sit down, you're rockin' the boat! Said to myself sit down, sit down, you're rockin' the boat. And the devil will drag you under with a soul so heavy you'd never float, Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down! Sit down, you're rockin' the boat
Ah, but the good cooks know to only flip the burger once. And to never press the patties.
Now, knowing that I know that, does that make me a good cook, or just somebody that watches Good Eats too much.
(Or, at the very least, an abuser of english for using 'that' more times than was necessary?)
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Ermmm..
Yes. ISP's are looking at this. In fact, there's a conference this weekend that's all about how to create a migration strategy to IPv6.
And yes, I'm going. I've already got my IPv6 Essentails book, and my laptop is a nice dual-boot linux and winxp. I'll be able set up IPv6 in about 5 minutes, and run a test node happily.
And when I get back to work, I'm planning on setting up a nice test lab with a handful of routers and a couple of linux servers, just so the rest of the engineers and planners can poke their heads in and play.
Because, really, that's what it's all about. Giving us a new place to play.
Wow. You must live and breath the pulse of the Alaskan citizenry.
Now, only being a 4th generation Alaskan, and only a mere 37 years old (fine, 36.75) I surly must have missed something.
But of all the people I know -- _nobody_ thinks the Knik Arm bridge is a "good thing." In fact, most folks here are well aware that the only people set to benefit from it are The Stevens'. Guess whom owns the properties involved. We're not stupid.
And most folks also don't see the need for the Ketchikan Airport bridge. The Ferry works pretty well, most of the time. Although Ketchikan cannot grow any more as a community without increased transportation facilities. It's a toss-up for them, unfortunately. Too bad that The Stevens went the wrong way in trying to garner support.
And you must have missed the results of the primary election. Stevens got ousted so badly, he won't ever make a comeback in politics again. Look for a Democratic Alaska, coming soon.
How about voting for the better person, instead of blinding throwing your vote away at some stupid "party-line"
representative that is only they because he bribed his friends and promised kickbacks?
Sheesh.
And the scary thing? Al Gore is starting to look _good_ in comparison.
Yeah, i read the article earlier and posted this on my blog. But whatever.
I was just reading an article about advertisers getting all bent out of shape because folks are skipping ads like crazy on their TiVo/DVR. Well, duh! They're skipping the commercials because they've gotten so annoyingly predominant -- it's nearly to the point where it feels that you're watching more commercials than scheduled program.
And you may be wondering what this is really about. Well, I just wanted to publish what I thought of as the next logical step in the DVR revolution. Advertisers will like it, and it wouldn't be that hard for the DVR people to code it up:
Abstract:
A method of delivering advertisements to a viewer of DVR-recorded media while the viewer is fast-forwarding or fast-rewinding through advertisements or the main video program.
Claim:
1) a system for temporarily reducing the viewing size of video playback during a fast-forward or fast-rewind viewing of a pre-recorded or cached video program or advertisement
2) a method of receiving encoded information within an advertisement, or main video program
3) a method of decoding the received information into:
3a) textual information, to be displayed to the viewer,
3b) linkage information, to be displayed as a shortcut, or hyperlink, in order to view more information,
3c) or, additional information such as (but not limited to) short musical phrases or small graphical icons
4) a system for overlaying text and graphics as received into the screen space vacated by claim 1.
Technical:
Advertisers and television execs are increasingly frustrated by the ability of a viewer to skip over their ads, reducing the take rate for said services. This patent would allow an advertiser to make sure that their message was still being seen by a "tivo-ised" audience, by simultaneously reducing the screen real-estate available to video playback during fast-forward, or fast-reverse; then displaying textual and graphical information into the newly-created blank space.
This would allow targeted advertisements within a broadcast program to appear while a user is fast-forwarding or fast-rewinding through the program (as they might in order to catch-up to where they had left off in a previous viewing). This would also allow an alternate method of viewing the intra-program advertisements during the so-called "ad-skip" fast-forward.
Well, I tried to draft it up like a patent. And now it's published. Really, it's the next logical step, and hopefully advertisers will come flocking to my door wanting to use my invention. And I'll be rich! Muahahah!
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It's about bloody time. Good grief, I mean, I wrote about this in '94 in my digital communications class.
Well, we only had three people show up, so it was much smaller than the dozen that said they were going to.
Of course, nobody popped an email to me, so I couldn't send them reminders (none of the folks have visible
emails in their profiles) so, what do ya do?
We didn't get the swag until a week after the party, although it did arrive via two-day air.
Interesting that.
But we had fun, and drank good beer and ate good pizza, and swapped some fun stories.
Really, it was all about the beer and pizza, and that made it a win.
+1 Bob Dylan filk.
One of my faves, too.
You didn't post an attribution. How am I supposed to know if i can
sing this version at the next con?
Just turn it off. Heck, unplug it. Snip the cable. Flip the breaker.
Sell your TV, and read a book.
Yes, because NASA never installed any sensors backwards, thus never indicating when to pop open a drag 'chute.
Not that I'm not a fan of NASA. I am. I own the Space Shuttle Operators Manual, and when I was 11 (when I got it) I probably
could have flown the shuttle, or at least co-piloted that darn thing.
Point is, mistakes happen. That's fine. What's great about Carmak and co. is that they tend to not only admit, but they also
learn from them. Because only half the fun in building rockets is watching 'em blow up.
I jumped to the conclusion that this was bogus, because it doesn't pass the non-obviousness.
It's frickin OBVIOUS that somebody is going to find a cheaper, better-performing thing.
I still want my rocket motorcycle.
Dammit.
I'm afraid that they'll come after me.
So i'll copyright another number:
81 71 99 8A 15 FC 6B D3 50 C9 DE 4D EB DE 00 48
I don't have a Wii, i've had to try other peoples. It was pretty fun, though.
Not quite enough for me to break down and buy a console.
Now, if you want to send me yours, i'll be happy to give it a decent home.
Odd - because if you've got a PS2/keyboard cable snaking out of it, you could be getting power from that port as well.
Heck, you could probably throw in a couple of low-voltage-drop diodes inline with the power leads from both the gameport and the ps2 port, and supply your FLCS/F-22 from either supply no matter what.
MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2007
2252 GMT (6:52 p.m. EDT)
"The data is back up in El Segundo. I do believe we are a little bit behind in the count. I think we delayed some of the propellant loading activities," says Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX vice president of business development. "It looks good for today, which is obviously good news."
How far behind the countdown is running or the target launch time isn't clear at the moment.
http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon/f2/status.html
Oooh, and this just happened to me a few weeks ago. well, not quite, but close enough.
I had an LVM container that sat on a RAID-1 volume go bad.
the lvm tools couldn't reconstruct the container, so I effectively 'lost' my partitions.
There wasn't any program I could find which would scan the raid volume for the data partitions,
so I ended up cobbling one together on my own, out of the sources in the ext2-tools distro.
And yes, I did get my data back, and no, i'm no longer using LVM containers.
"DOS is more secure than Linux by just about any reasonably sane metric you can come up with [it]."
.COM program? That'll certainly bring any system to its knees. But I suppose that kmem security is really just an issue with user privlege escalation. And we've covered that.
Except that when you boot *DOS, you're automagically the superuser. Or Joe is. Or grandma. Or whomever.
Or maybe user privleges aren't a sane metric to judge security by?
How about just overwriting the interrupt vector table with a quick
But there are certainly any number of virus and trojan type exploits for *DOS. Or perhaps these aren't sane metrics either?
Um..
I hate to break the news, but you're too late with this idea.
I've already patented it.
Wahoo! Check us out! Alaska is #2, at $1.87 of your precious tax dollars.
Of course, if you've got a problem with that, we'd be happy to change the price
of the oil we've been selling to you..
I guess I'll ask for my money back from Id Software.
Oh, and those guys that made Tux Racer.
And those folks that did the Sims port.
Oh, and all my money over the past few years that's gone
to TransGaming.
But i'm probably not your typical gamer, since I don't play that often.
Dude, you're slashdotting teh googal ovarl00rds!
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I see your popular song, and raise you one Broadway Musical:
And I said to myself, sit down! Sit down, you're rockin' the boat!
Said to myself sit down, sit down, you're rockin' the boat.
And the devil will drag you under with a soul so heavy you'd never float,
Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down!
Sit down, you're rockin' the boat
Ah, but the good cooks know to only flip the burger once. And to never press the patties.
Now, knowing that I know that, does that make me a good cook, or just somebody that
watches Good Eats too much.
(Or, at the very least, an abuser of english for using 'that' more times than was necessary?)
Ermmm..
Yes. ISP's are looking at this. In fact, there's a conference this weekend that's all about how to create a migration strategy to IPv6.
And yes, I'm going. I've already got my IPv6 Essentails book, and my laptop is a nice dual-boot linux and winxp. I'll be able set up IPv6 in about 5 minutes, and run a test node happily.
And when I get back to work, I'm planning on setting up a nice test lab with a handful of routers and a couple of linux servers, just so the rest of the engineers and planners can poke their heads in and play.
Because, really, that's what it's all about. Giving us a new place to play.
Not enough sleep.
Murkowski is out. Stevens probably in the next election.
Sigh.
Wow. You must live and breath the pulse of the Alaskan citizenry.
Now, only being a 4th generation Alaskan, and only a mere 37 years old (fine, 36.75) I surly must have missed something.
But of all the people I know -- _nobody_ thinks the Knik Arm bridge is a "good thing." In fact, most folks
here are well aware that the only people set to benefit from it are The Stevens'. Guess whom owns the properties
involved. We're not stupid.
And most folks also don't see the need for the Ketchikan Airport bridge. The Ferry works pretty well, most of the time.
Although Ketchikan cannot grow any more as a community without increased transportation facilities. It's a toss-up for
them, unfortunately. Too bad that The Stevens went the wrong way in trying to garner support.
And you must have missed the results of the primary election. Stevens got ousted so badly, he won't ever make a comeback
in politics again. Look for a Democratic Alaska, coming soon.
You know Bob Jones in Junueau? That son-of-a-bitch owes me 20$.
Gah-
That is _exactly_ why we're in this mess today.
How about voting for the better person, instead of blinding throwing your vote away at some stupid "party-line"
representative that is only they because he bribed his friends and promised kickbacks?
Sheesh.
And the scary thing? Al Gore is starting to look _good_ in comparison.
Yeah, i read the article earlier and posted this on my blog. But whatever.
I was just reading an article about advertisers getting all bent out of shape because folks are skipping ads like crazy on their TiVo/DVR. Well, duh! They're skipping the commercials because they've gotten so annoyingly predominant -- it's nearly to the point where it feels that you're watching more commercials than scheduled program.
And you may be wondering what this is really about. Well, I just wanted to publish what I thought of as the next logical step in the DVR revolution. Advertisers will like it, and it wouldn't be that hard for the DVR people to code it up:
Abstract:
A method of delivering advertisements to a viewer of DVR-recorded media while the viewer is fast-forwarding or fast-rewinding through advertisements or the main video program.
Claim:
1) a system for temporarily reducing the viewing size of video playback during a fast-forward or fast-rewind viewing of a pre-recorded or cached video program or advertisement
2) a method of receiving encoded information within an advertisement, or main video program
3) a method of decoding the received information into:
3a) textual information, to be displayed to the viewer,
3b) linkage information, to be displayed as a shortcut, or hyperlink, in order to view more information,
3c) or, additional information such as (but not limited to) short musical phrases or small graphical icons
4) a system for overlaying text and graphics as received into the screen space vacated by claim 1.
Technical:
Advertisers and television execs are increasingly frustrated by the ability of a viewer to skip over their ads, reducing the take rate for said services. This patent would allow an advertiser to make sure that their message was still being seen by a "tivo-ised" audience, by simultaneously reducing the screen real-estate available to video playback during fast-forward, or fast-reverse; then displaying textual and graphical information into the newly-created blank space.
This would allow targeted advertisements within a broadcast program to appear while a user is fast-forwarding or fast-rewinding through the program (as they might in order to catch-up to where they had left off in a previous viewing). This would also allow an alternate method of viewing the intra-program advertisements during the so-called "ad-skip" fast-forward.
Well, I tried to draft it up like a patent. And now it's published. Really, it's the next logical step, and hopefully advertisers will come flocking to my door wanting to use my invention. And I'll be rich! Muahahah!