District opens 2 probes of finances Uniondale School officials have launched investigations into alleged overtime abuses by custodial staff and are examining financial records concerning a $4.8 million telecommunications project.
Maybe they would not have to consider cutting budgets if there was less theft from the taxpayers.
I am amazed that people do not realize that it becomes difficult to run NEW 2004 software on old 1999 hardware.
Perhaps the best post on this from the OSNEWS discussion on this editorial: - - - - - Anecdotal evidence --> meaningless conclusion By Andrew (IP: ---.fbx.proxad.net) Posted on 2004-06-10 09:46:37 Summary of the arguments presented in this thread:
- My X yearx old computer with Y MB RAM is slow with the latest Z Linux distribution.
where 3 < X < 6, and 64 < Y < 256, and Z is an element of the set of full-fledged Linux distributions like Fedora, Mandrake, SuSE, you name it.
The meaningless conclusion is: "Linux is getting very fat".
How the author jumps from his anecdotal evidence to his meaningless conclusion is clearly fuel for a long thread, seeing as this thread is growing fast...
It may not be necessary to completely format and wipe clean the HD if you lose the partition table. To repair/write a partition table to disk, normally you might use fdisk and have to hand enter the sectors/blocks boundaries of the partitions.There is a open source tool called gpart. gpart will guess the partitions on the HD and can also write a new partition table to HD. I have had an instance where electrical outages & fluctuations caused the HD to lose its partition table. The table was inacurately identified the HD as one FAT16 patition when there was really a linux partition and a swap partition. gpart was able to clear this up and I did not lose and data. Go to http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ to get the source or a binary for linux and freebsd. I think gpart is available on knoppix and perhaps also Gentoo LiveCDs.
AFAIK farmers in upstate NY (Cortland area) are still doing this (though I haven't visited family there in a couple years). They would liquify the manure and fertilize their fields by spraying it. Nothing like living down wind of the spraying. Imagine not being able to NOT smell shit for about a week. The odor is so potent that it would "stick" to clothing and hair. Last I heard was that the farmers were changing their ways & moving on to other means for manure distribution.
SLI - scan line interleve, was available for 3dfx Voodoo IIs (maybe even Voodoo 1) where the first card would process all the odd lines & the second card would process all the even lines.
SAMSUNG SYNCMASTER 172X LCD at TweakNews.net, seems to he a more thorough review. Sounds like a great monitor, though too much for my wallet. $400 seems to be a viable price point for me.
GTK/GNOME is accessible to many users and developers (AS IS) via C/C++/python/perl/ and I am sure there are others I am leaving out. Why not Eiffel? How about why Eiffel at all? I have never seen Eiffel outside of my CS 101 & CS 102 courses. Seriously, go out and ask other developers what they know or what they have heard of. Chances are people have not heard of Eiffel. Doesn't the GNOME developers want to reach as many developers as possible? The FLOSS idea is that a user may become interested enough to then take a peek at the code. This peek may pique their interests and may eventually become a developer themselves. Doesn't GNOME want as many regular users to become power users to maybe become developers. So what if Eiffel can be compiled to C? Why have another layer of abstraction thus obscuring the picture.
More Do, Less Talk. If the GNOME developers want more users, want more power users, want more small time developers, then these people have to get interested in the project/platform and must be guided and learn the ropes, or in this case the API. They need to get underneath the hood and understand how it works. IMHO, education, tutorials and documentation would be a great place to start.
DAR - Disk ARchiver & Parchive combined sounds like it would work wonders.
From http://dar.linux.free.fr/: dar is a shell command, that makes backup of a directory tree and files. It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL in the following) and actually has been tested under Linux, Windows and Solaris. Since version 2.0.0 an Application Interface (API) is available to open the way to external independent Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). An extension of this API (in its version 2) is in the air, for release 2.1.0, and would overcome some limitation of API version 1. This API relies on the libdar library which is the core part of DAR programs and, as such, is released under the GPL. In consequences, to use it, your program must be released under the GPL, no commercial use will be tolerated
...
... Archive Testing
thanks to CRC (cyclic redundancy checks), dar is able to detect data corruption in the archive. Only the file where data corruption occurred will not be possible to restore, but dar will restore the other even when compression is used.
The original idea behind this project was to provide a tool to apply the data-recovery capability concepts of RAID-like systems to the posting and recovery of multi-part archives on Usenet. We accomplished that goal. Our new goal with version 2.0 of the specification is to improve. It extends the idea of version 1.0 and takes the recovery process beyond the file-level barrier. This allows for more effective protection with less recovery data, and removes some previous limitations on the number of recoverable parts. See Par1 compared to Par2 for a more detailed view of the differences.
Exactly. How about those who can't drink? I am very sickly allergic to alcolhol. See this report for more details. There is no getting buzzed or feeling good from drinking. A glass of wine messes me up more than you can imagine and there you can not build up a tolerance to the negative effects as the problem is embedded in my genes.
Not necessarily so, if the coding was done as a "work made for hire". If made, researched, wrote, composed etc. as a work made for hire, you essentially renouce your copyrights to the employer. From Section 201, Copyright Act of 1976 (a) Copyright in a work protected under this title vests initially in the author or authors of the work. The authors of a joint work are co-owners of copyright in the work.
(b) In the case of a work made for hire, the employer or other person for whom the work was prepared is considered the author for purposes of this title, and, unless the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in a written instrument signed by them, owns all of the rights comprised in the copyright.
I gues IHBT but let us play pretend. I just made this ummm fork and its made of plastic.... and stainless steel. Here you can use it to help you get food into your mouth. It's other non-intended use might be get food into a container or perhaps even to stab our/. troll's eyes. Maybe I didn't intend for this to happen...but the best of intentions oft go awry. I find it hard to believe though that someone smart enough to eat with a fork m is naive enough to not realize how it would be utilized.
RFIDs in cows & sheep. I wonder if this and helps with disease control. I count sheep for a living!
Well actually I am a computer programmer, but the other day I found myself in the middle of a portuguese field counting 596 sheep. I work for the agricultural business, and my latest project involves sheep and cattle with RFID tags in their bellies. The system I work with reads signals from an antenna that detects when the animals pass.
Quite a change from my previous job where I was making stock trading systems for a bank.
Kludge of a story that was hacked together to sell tickets. Inclusion of a new stronger, faster, & harder to kill Terminator that also oozes with sexual energy & is not scary or intimidating. Film score that didn't use the Terminator2 theme to inspire awe & fear.
T2: "Hasta la vista, baby!" T3: "Talk to the hand."
Read the PDF. The first page tell us that: Using the Blue Horizon supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, we found that pre-computing the 207 Billion hashes for over 50 million passwords can be done in about 80 minutes. Further, this result shows that for about $10K anyone should be able to do the same in a few months time, using one uni-processor machine.
From >a href="http://www.zero-g.co.uk/index.cfm?articleid= 802">http://www.zero-g.co.uk/index.cfm?articleid=8 02 LOLA Demo 1 -Little Bird (MP3) Demo 1: "Little Bird". (NOTE - the lead vocal line on this demo is NOT by Vocaloid - it is a real singer. Please listen to the backing vocals!). This demo illustrates well how LOLA has been used to create a simple backing vocal arrangement for a personally-produced song. The song was written and performed by one of the Zero-G singing synthesis development team, Andy Power. Andy is singing the lead vocal himself, with his real voice, but he was able to add the backing vocals to his song purely by creating them all using LOLA. Although this is only a very simple example, it immediately illustrates LOLA's usefulness in an everyday situation.
This tool is a "honeypot." The idea is that you install this software on a Linux/Unix machine (believe there might also be an NT version available) and it pretends to be like multiple computers on the network, acting as virtual hosts. Whenever a worm comes along and probes one of those virtual hosts, La Brea hangs on to the thread and slows down the process of infection, logs all the relevant info, etc. It's actually a brilliant idea and now, thanks to some of our genius legislators, potentially illegal to possess or use. Someone created a tar-pit for Code Red. google for la brea code red
Normal OpenSSH development produces a very small, secure, and easy to maintain version for the OpenBSD project. The OpenSSH Portability Team takes that pure version and adds portability code so that OpenSSH can run on many other operating systems (Unfortunately, in particular since OpenSSH does authentication, it runs into a *lot* of differences between Unix operating systems)....
Another vote for Keytronic. I buy a new keyboard every 2 years because a I hate cleaning the keyboard. So every 2 years I look at whats on the market & Keytronic is where it is at.
Some of the motherboard being sold today don't include a Parallel port. For US$15 Lik-Sang sells the "PS/PS2(TM)-PC USB Converter" make by a company called Boom.
Product Features # Use Playstation Joypads on your PC (through USB interface) # Automatically turns on the PS controller in analog mode, no need to switch. # Supports Dual Shock function in games which support DirectX force feedback # Analog joystick resolution in 256 positions on each axis # Supports all buttons (4 axis analog joystick, 16 buttons) # compatible with Win 98 / 2000 # Plug & Play, no additional power source required
Description The PS Joy adapter lets you play PC games with a Playstation Joypad. Perfect for any emulation program such as Bleem or other.
>> Of course it made sense, since it was released for debugging purposes: narrowing down the hardware makes it much easier. I think Q3 had a similar pre-demo-debugging release.
While that is true, They released the Glide version of the demo first because A) They cut an exclusive deal with 3dfx. B) They developed the game on PII-400s with VoodooIIs & obviously used Glide. C) I also believe it was so that they could finish the Direct3D modular portion of the UT engine.
IMHO, while an exclusive demo limits the potential audience for your game, Epic had a release plan for UT which included releasing a Direct3D enabled demo about 2 weeks later.
From the news bit: "You and the others in the group were prepared to take up arms, and die as martyrs if necessary, to defend the Taliban. Is this true?" U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones asked Hawash during the hearing.
"Yes, your honor," Hawash replied.
I had really hoped that the US Gov was wrong for nabbing a US citizen. I had hoped that there would be a suite against the gov for violating civil rights. But Damn! This doesn't look good.
It has too many negative connotations. `Viral' is too closely related to virus, worm, exploits etc.
The FSF & those posting in their blogs need to choose a better word. One Bill CIOofSomeCorp gets wind of Free Software being viral... well it is all down hill from there.
Slashdot Mirror
TOO TRUE! Corruption & theft is too common in our Long Island schools.
High-tech purchases are questioned. Invoices show computer store items, bought with district funds, used at officials' homes
BY KARLA SCHUSTER AND EDEN LAIKIN
STAFF WRITERS
June 15, 2004
The Roslyn public schools spent tens of thousands of dollars at a computer store for equipment, electronic games and movies that ended up in the homes of consultants, former district officials and their families, records show.
District opens 2 probes of finances
Uniondale School officials have launched investigations into alleged overtime abuses by custodial staff and are examining financial records concerning a $4.8 million telecommunications project.
Maybe they would not have to consider cutting budgets if there was less theft from the taxpayers.
School districts resubmitting budgets for vote whether submitting same plan or one with cuts, districts face losing backing of key groups or protest vote
More than a quarter of the 45 Long Island districts that lost budget votes last month are submitting identical spending plans to voters starting this week, even as other districts absorb painful cuts in art, music and summer classes.
I am amazed that people do not realize that it becomes difficult to run NEW 2004 software on old 1999 hardware.
Perhaps the best post on this from the OSNEWS discussion on this editorial:
- - - - -
Anecdotal evidence --> meaningless conclusion
By Andrew (IP: ---.fbx.proxad.net)
Posted on 2004-06-10 09:46:37
Summary of the arguments presented in this thread:
- My X yearx old computer with Y MB RAM is slow with the latest Z Linux distribution.
where 3 < X < 6,
and 64 < Y < 256,
and Z is an element of the set of full-fledged Linux distributions like Fedora, Mandrake, SuSE, you name it.
The meaningless conclusion is: "Linux is getting very fat".
How the author jumps from his anecdotal evidence to his meaningless conclusion is clearly fuel for a long thread, seeing as this thread is growing fast...
It may not be necessary to completely format and wipe clean the HD if you lose the partition table. To repair/write a partition table to disk, normally you might use fdisk and have to hand enter the sectors/blocks boundaries of the partitions.There is a open source tool called gpart. gpart will guess the partitions on the HD and can also write a new partition table to HD. I have had an instance where electrical outages & fluctuations caused the HD to lose its partition table. The table was inacurately identified the HD as one FAT16 patition when there was really a linux partition and a swap partition. gpart was able to clear this up and I did not lose and data. Go to http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ to get the source or a binary for linux and freebsd. I think gpart is available on knoppix and perhaps also Gentoo LiveCDs.
Jem Matzan of thejemreport.com reviewed SUSE 9.1
SuSE Linux 9.1 Personal Edition Review
SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional x86/AMD64
Jem has lots of great info at his site.
AFAIK farmers in upstate NY (Cortland area) are still doing this (though I haven't visited family there in a couple years). They would liquify the manure and fertilize their fields by spraying it. Nothing like living down wind of the spraying. Imagine not being able to NOT smell shit for about a week. The odor is so potent that it would "stick" to clothing and hair. Last I heard was that the farmers were changing their ways & moving on to other means for manure distribution.
SLI - scan line interleve, was available for 3dfx Voodoo IIs (maybe even Voodoo 1) where the first card would process all the odd lines & the second card would process all the even lines.
SAMSUNG SYNCMASTER 172X LCD at TweakNews.net, seems to he a more thorough review. Sounds like a great monitor, though too much for my wallet. $400 seems to be a viable price point for me.
Why not Eiffel? How about why Eiffel at all? I have never seen Eiffel outside of my CS 101 & CS 102 courses. Seriously, go out and ask other developers what they know or what they have heard of. Chances are people have not heard of Eiffel. Doesn't the GNOME developers want to reach as many developers as possible? The FLOSS idea is that a user may become interested enough to then take a peek at the code. This peek may pique their interests and may eventually become a developer themselves. Doesn't GNOME want as many regular users to become power users to maybe become developers. So what if Eiffel can be compiled to C? Why have another layer of abstraction thus obscuring the picture.
More Do, Less Talk.
If the GNOME developers want more users, want more power users, want more small time developers, then these people have to get interested in the project/platform and must be guided and learn the ropes, or in this case the API. They need to get underneath the hood and understand how it works. IMHO, education, tutorials and documentation would be a great place to start.
From http://dar.linux.free.fr/:
dar is a shell command, that makes backup of a directory tree and files. It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL in the following) and actually has been tested under Linux, Windows and Solaris. Since version 2.0.0 an Application Interface (API) is available to open the way to external independent Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). An extension of this API (in its version 2) is in the air, for release 2.1.0, and would overcome some limitation of API version 1. This API relies on the libdar library which is the core part of DAR programs and, as such, is released under the GPL. In consequences, to use it, your program must be released under the GPL, no commercial use will be tolerated
Archive Testing
thanks to CRC (cyclic redundancy checks), dar is able to detect data corruption in the archive. Only the file where data corruption occurred will not be possible to restore, but dar will restore the other even when compression is used.
Parchive http://parchive.sourceforge.net/:
Parchive: Parity Archive Volume Set
The original idea behind this project was to provide a tool to apply the data-recovery capability concepts of RAID-like systems to the posting and recovery of multi-part archives on Usenet. We accomplished that goal. Our new goal with version 2.0 of the specification is to improve. It extends the idea of version 1.0 and takes the recovery process beyond the file-level barrier. This allows for more effective protection with less recovery data, and removes some previous limitations on the number of recoverable parts. See Par1 compared to Par2 for a more detailed view of the differences.
Exactly. How about those who can't drink? I am very sickly allergic to alcolhol. See this report for more details. There is no getting buzzed or feeling good from drinking. A glass of wine messes me up more than you can imagine and there you can not build up a tolerance to the negative effects as the problem is embedded in my genes.
Not necessarily so, if the coding was done as a "work made for hire". If made, researched, wrote, composed etc. as a work made for hire, you essentially renouce your copyrights to the employer.
From Section 201, Copyright Act of 1976
(a) Copyright in a work protected under this title vests initially in the author or authors of the work. The authors of a joint work are co-owners of copyright in the work.
(b) In the case of a work made for hire, the employer or other person for whom the work was prepared is considered the author for purposes of this title, and, unless the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in a written instrument signed by them, owns all of the rights comprised in the copyright.
I gues IHBT but let us play pretend. I just made this ummm fork and its made of plastic .... and stainless steel. Here you can use it to help you get food into your mouth. It's other non-intended use might be get food into a container or perhaps even to stab our /. troll's eyes. Maybe I didn't intend for this to happen...but the best of intentions oft go awry. I find it hard to believe though that someone smart enough to eat with a fork m is naive enough to not realize how it would be utilized.
RFIDs in cows & sheep. I wonder if this and helps with disease control.
I count sheep for a living!
Well actually I am a computer programmer, but the other day I found myself in the middle of a portuguese field counting 596 sheep. I work for the agricultural business, and my latest project involves sheep and cattle with RFID tags in their bellies. The system I work with reads signals from an antenna that detects when the animals pass.
Quite a change from my previous job where I was making stock trading systems for a bank.
Kludge of a story that was hacked together to sell tickets. Inclusion of a new stronger, faster, & harder to kill Terminator that also oozes with sexual energy & is not scary or intimidating. Film score that didn't use the Terminator2 theme to inspire awe & fear.
T2: "Hasta la vista, baby!"
T3: "Talk to the hand."
eww. I feel dirty just thinking about that film.
Read the PDF. The first page tell us that:
Using the Blue Horizon supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, we found that pre-computing the 207 Billion hashes for over 50 million passwords can be done in about 80 minutes. Further, this result shows that for about $10K anyone should be able to do the same in a few months time, using one uni-processor machine.
From >a href="http://www.zero-g.co.uk/index.cfm?articleid= 802">http://www.zero-g.co.uk/index.cfm?articleid=8 02
LOLA Demo 1 -Little Bird (MP3)
Demo 1: "Little Bird".
(NOTE - the lead vocal line on this demo is NOT by Vocaloid - it is a real singer. Please listen to the backing vocals!). This demo illustrates well how LOLA has been used to create a simple backing vocal arrangement for a personally-produced song. The song was written and performed by one of the Zero-G singing synthesis development team, Andy Power. Andy is singing the lead vocal himself, with his real voice, but he was able to add the backing vocals to his song purely by creating them all using LOLA. Although this is only a very simple example, it immediately illustrates LOLA's usefulness in an everyday situation.
Is there a way to keep their porn/mortgage/penis size ad server busy so that it can not open more connections?h tml
http://www.toad.net/~mischief/archives/00000084.s
This tool is a "honeypot." The idea is that you install this software on a Linux/Unix machine (believe there might also be an NT version available) and it pretends to be like multiple computers on the network, acting as virtual hosts. Whenever a worm comes along and probes one of those virtual hosts, La Brea hangs on to the thread and slows down the process of infection, logs all the relevant info, etc. It's actually a brilliant idea and now, thanks to some of our genius legislators, potentially illegal to possess or use.
Someone created a tar-pit for Code Red. google for la brea code red
any ideas?
or am I suggesting a DoS?
A friend of ours in Korea (or is it actually Corea now?)
Why would it be Corea? Did they change it?
From Portable OpenSSH
...
Normal OpenSSH development produces a very small, secure, and easy to maintain version for the OpenBSD project. The OpenSSH Portability Team takes that pure version and adds portability code so that OpenSSH can run on many other operating systems (Unfortunately, in particular since OpenSSH does authentication, it runs into a *lot* of differences between Unix operating systems).
Another vote for Keytronic. I buy a new keyboard every 2 years because a I hate cleaning the keyboard. So every 2 years I look at whats on the market & Keytronic is where it is at.
This change will not change until we start outsourcing the two political parties.
They are!
The US Republican Party now has a band of young and enthusiastic fund-raisers in Noida and Gurgaon, India
Some of the motherboard being sold today don't include a Parallel port.
For US$15 Lik-Sang sells the "PS/PS2(TM)-PC USB Converter" make by a company called Boom.
Product Features
# Use Playstation Joypads on your PC (through USB interface)
# Automatically turns on the PS controller in analog mode, no need to switch.
# Supports Dual Shock function in games which support DirectX force feedback
# Analog joystick resolution in 256 positions on each axis
# Supports all buttons (4 axis analog joystick, 16 buttons)
# compatible with Win 98 / 2000
# Plug & Play, no additional power source required
Description
The PS Joy adapter lets you play PC games with a Playstation Joypad. Perfect for any emulation program such as Bleem or other.
>> Of course it made sense, since it was released for debugging purposes: narrowing down the hardware makes it much easier. I think Q3 had a similar pre-demo-debugging release.
While that is true, They released the Glide version of the demo first because
A) They cut an exclusive deal with 3dfx.
B) They developed the game on PII-400s with VoodooIIs & obviously used Glide.
C) I also believe it was so that they could finish the Direct3D modular portion of the UT engine.
IMHO, while an exclusive demo limits the potential audience for your game, Epic had a release plan for UT which included releasing a Direct3D enabled demo about 2 weeks later.
From the news bit:
"You and the others in the group were prepared to take up arms, and die as martyrs if necessary, to defend the Taliban. Is this true?" U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones asked Hawash during the hearing.
"Yes, your honor," Hawash replied.
I had really hoped that the US Gov was wrong for nabbing a US citizen. I had hoped that there would be a suite against the gov for violating civil rights.
But Damn!
This doesn't look good.
It has too many negative connotations. `Viral' is too closely related to virus, worm, exploits etc.
... well it is all down hill from there.
The FSF & those posting in their blogs need to choose a better word. One Bill CIOofSomeCorp gets wind of Free Software being viral