It turned out that one of the keys in my bundle was stuck between the steering wheel housing and the stick used to set the cruise control, forcing it into acceleration mode. Like a slowly boiled frog, I didn't notice what had been happening.
That's why I like ignition locks in the dashboard, like on my Benz w126;)
Later models have the cruise control controls on the steering wheel itself, which would have avoided this. OTOH I don't like controls on the wheel at all: steering wheels are for steering, and controls that change position are not ergonomic.
I have to say I'm pretty damned fond of my 300SDL's ergonomics, except for the manual driver mirror and the fader dial that's useless when you ditch the crap stereo. One of these days I'm dropping in a new amp/wires/speakers and replacing the fader with a audio-in and/or 120v AC plug.
Pete Conrad died as a result of a motorcycle accident, not natural causes. He also wasn't in the original 7: he started in Gemini, and went on to Apollo and Skylab.
Al Shepard and Deke Slayton IIRC died of natural causes though.
I think it behooves any nerd worthy of the name to take some time and rewatch the 'From the Earth to the Moon' series, particularly with the new private space race just starting. My favorite: the Apollo 12 episode with, you guessed it, Pete Conrad.
The first Halo single-player kicks the crap out of most action movies IMHO. That's justification enough for me to pick up H2 at my local place where I'm on deposit on release day.
It may be that UT2k4's got better multiplayer, that's its whole reason for existing as the single-player is kinda lame. If H2 Live is only half as good as UT2k4, even without Onslaught I'd still get it.
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I've never seen a game with such replay value, or is my friend just a HALO nut?
In single-player, he's probably a nut. However, I've recently restarted the game with a new profile in order to try it in harder modes: I've only beaten it in normal. Playing in the max mode (Legendary IIRC) was too much for me: I couldn't even get off the ship!
Or subsidized by the government (the airline industry for example)
Or agricultural subsidies. Those are even worse: they kill poor people by stifling global competition, they keep consumer prices high, and the beneficiaries are Cargill, ADM and the other big AgriCorps.
I wouldn't be terribly opposed to 'preservation subsidies' for multi-generational family-owned-and-operated agribiz with a size cap, but the subs we have for corn at least are fucking obscene.
Of course, we will never get rid of those subsidies, until we get rid of the senate.
ObTopic: Is there a company in the US that offers a similar 'wholesale' satellite service for small-medium "cable" operators?
However, it was still pretty raw to administer, and overall I didn't have a system that met my needs, which was to reduce the administrative burden on some of the less technical people I work with.
This is the key. You can spend lots and lots of time monkeying around with schemas, supported versions, integration into samba, etc. But it wasn't easy, and I couldn't trust the work to someone else.
That's why Novell can kill if they keep the per-user price low enough. Easy administration and integration into packages, 3rd party module support, etc.
At one point at one company, I had samba, postfix, apache, addressbooks, inn, and proprietary stuff all using a single LDAP source. postfix used LDAP groups as mailing lists, so if you mailed 'dev@corp.com' it would send mail to every member of posixGroup 'dev'. I had to create a separate web page for users to change their passwords so the sambaNTpassword crap would be updated appropriately, but it worked. There was single username/passwd for every IT resource at the company (30 people).
You know, I really don't mind Lucas going in and tinkering with SFX, and when he says he puts stuff in he wanted to get in originally but couldn't because of budget and technology, I'm happy to give him the benefit of the doubt. Even if the newer SFX are digitally fakey, even if they're somewhat _silly_, I can get over it.
What I _CAN'T_ get over is changing lines of dialogue and neutering characters at the editing deck for inscrutable purposes.
Han fired first. Period. The fact that he did speaks to his character, and changing that changes his character. If Harrison Ford cared, I'm sure he'd be pissed.
The A&E documentary released to hype up the DVD set goes into how during Empire they kept shooting takes of the Carbonite scene between Han and Leia, how Ford couldn't get a good take with "I love you too" in response to Leia's "I love you". Ford ad-libbed Han's most famous line, and the only reason it survived and made cinema history is because Lucas wasn't directing.
There was no mention of sender pays postage as a solution.
Sender pays _today_. You can't send a single email without a data line and at least client software running on some form of computer. All these things cost money to _someone_ at some point, so while the sender costs are minimal they exist. And yeah, they don't pay per-msg postage. The point is there's no reason to have two extremes: untrusted anonymail _or_ per-message postal fees. It's a false dichotomy, which only benefits those that hold those positions.
Anything that prevents anonymous email has an inherent central control which the internet doesn't need more of.
Fair enough, there should always be an option to send mail anonymously. However, don't be surprised if anonymail becomes a Nth class citizen if we start ranking transports and exchangers by trust.
(bad form to self-reply, I know:p)... How about those 'trusted' sources running DNS servers that provide MX resolution for domains? Granted you'd need DNSSEC to trust them that far (and RFC3445 kinda kills the 'put the key in DNS' idea) but the USPS, various national posts, UN, verisign, etc could run DNS servers that handle MX resolution for domains so you can point your MX configuration at those domain servers ala the RBL. Extra sneaky points to building an entire root DNS dedicated to MX.
It's more of a TWL (Trusted Whitehole List) than an RBL (Realtime Blackhole List).
Of course, it goes without saying that all of this is pissing in the wind as long as people's pain threshold is still higher than the bother of implementing all this.
IMHO the real way to lock mail down is to use PGP keys to authenticate legitimate MXs, and blacklist/expire certs that misbehave. Add an X header that signs the payload hash with its own seckey, then send to the destination to have it verify before delivery.
'Trusted' sources (including national post offices) could generate and certify keys for these servers, and expire/blacklist them if they're abused. Put the pubkey into a DNS record for the MX.
Legacy mail not in this system could be flagged as 'untrusted' and jailed appropriately.
Thanks for the reply.. I've downloaded and installed MW on my workstation, in order to see if I can hack in features I'm interested in:
* contributor 'reliability' ranking * coloring contributions based on their author's ranking * LDAP authentication/access control
The first two look to be especially taxing, though if I insert hidden text into submissions and trap that text in render rather than try to rejigger the system to dynamically reassemble pages from a base + diffs it could be doable...
Asterisk doesn't have native LDAP support, but it's not very hard to write a script that produces a set of Asterisk config files out of LDAP data. With a bit more work, you could script Asterisk to do LDAP lookups, but it'll take too much work to be worth it for small (100 users) sites.
With LDAP you can get interesting stuff like injecting voicemails to IMAP mailboxes, having group extensions (like helpdesk) inject voicemail to group mailboxes, etc..
I'm just thinking how neat it would be to have a voicemail password be dtmf(lc($passplain)) so you'd have single signon;)
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So I can see my summaries in trn?
It turned out that one of the keys in my bundle was stuck between the steering wheel housing and the stick used to set the cruise control, forcing it into acceleration mode. Like a slowly boiled frog, I didn't notice what had been happening.
;)
That's why I like ignition locks in the dashboard, like on my Benz w126
Later models have the cruise control controls on the steering wheel itself, which would have avoided this. OTOH I don't like controls on the wheel at all: steering wheels are for steering, and controls that change position are not ergonomic.
I have to say I'm pretty damned fond of my 300SDL's ergonomics, except for the manual driver mirror and the fader dial that's useless when you ditch the crap stereo. One of these days I'm dropping in a new amp/wires/speakers and replacing the fader with a audio-in and/or 120v AC plug.
BTW, offtopic, but the new BMW bikes use CAN-BUS.
I'd love to play it, I even emerged it, but I don't think my poor 128mb card can handle 24-bit @ 1920x1200 :p
;)
I suppose 16-bit is too 1998, but it's good enough for me
Pete Conrad died as a result of a motorcycle accident, not natural causes. He also wasn't in the original 7: he started in Gemini, and went on to Apollo and Skylab.
Al Shepard and Deke Slayton IIRC died of natural causes though.
I think it behooves any nerd worthy of the name to take some time and rewatch the 'From the Earth to the Moon' series, particularly with the new private space race just starting. My favorite: the Apollo 12 episode with, you guessed it, Pete Conrad.
The first Halo single-player kicks the crap out of most action movies IMHO. That's justification enough for me to pick up H2 at my local place where I'm on deposit on release day.
It may be that UT2k4's got better multiplayer, that's its whole reason for existing as the single-player is kinda lame. If H2 Live is only half as good as UT2k4, even without Onslaught I'd still get it.
I've never seen a game with such replay value, or is my friend just a HALO nut?
In single-player, he's probably a nut. However, I've recently restarted the game with a new profile in order to try it in harder modes: I've only beaten it in normal. Playing in the max mode (Legendary IIRC) was too much for me: I couldn't even get off the ship!
Or subsidized by the government (the airline industry for example)
Or agricultural subsidies. Those are even worse: they kill poor people by stifling global competition, they keep consumer prices high, and the beneficiaries are Cargill, ADM and the other big AgriCorps.
I wouldn't be terribly opposed to 'preservation subsidies' for multi-generational family-owned-and-operated agribiz with a size cap, but the subs we have for corn at least are fucking obscene.
Of course, we will never get rid of those subsidies, until we get rid of the senate.
ObTopic: Is there a company in the US that offers a similar 'wholesale' satellite service for small-medium "cable" operators?
Can I attach a USB kybd/mouse/harddrive/whatever to it?
I wonder what Qtopia looks like on it...
However, it was still pretty raw to administer, and overall I didn't have a system that met my needs, which was to reduce the administrative burden on some of the less technical people I work with.
This is the key. You can spend lots and lots of time monkeying around with schemas, supported versions, integration into samba, etc. But it wasn't easy, and I couldn't trust the work to someone else.
That's why Novell can kill if they keep the per-user price low enough. Easy administration and integration into packages, 3rd party module support, etc.
At one point at one company, I had samba, postfix, apache, addressbooks, inn, and proprietary stuff all using a single LDAP source. postfix used LDAP groups as mailing lists, so if you mailed 'dev@corp.com' it would send mail to every member of posixGroup 'dev'. I had to create a separate web page for users to change their passwords so the sambaNTpassword crap would be updated appropriately, but it worked. There was single username/passwd for every IT resource at the company (30 people).
But yes, it was a cast-iron bitch to manage.
I'm sorry, but that logo still looks like a steaming turd in a styrofoam cup to me.
Whether that's intentional or not I leave as an exercise to the reader.
I'm pretty sure all PowerBooks go to sleep when you shut the computer lid.
If you have a kybd attached to it, if you type with the lid closed, it wakes up...
This is done in lieu of a docking station.
Still, I'd be interested to see if someone hacks a snooper that will sniff photos out of the air and display them...
Big deal, I hacked my pacemaker to double as an iPod!
Not a big drum-n-bass fan I presume?
You know, I really don't mind Lucas going in and tinkering with SFX, and when he says he puts stuff in he wanted to get in originally but couldn't because of budget and technology, I'm happy to give him the benefit of the doubt. Even if the newer SFX are digitally fakey, even if they're somewhat _silly_, I can get over it.
What I _CAN'T_ get over is changing lines of dialogue and neutering characters at the editing deck for inscrutable purposes.
Han fired first. Period. The fact that he did speaks to his character, and changing that changes his character. If Harrison Ford cared, I'm sure he'd be pissed.
The A&E documentary released to hype up the DVD set goes into how during Empire they kept shooting takes of the Carbonite scene between Han and Leia, how Ford couldn't get a good take with "I love you too" in response to Leia's "I love you". Ford ad-libbed Han's most famous line, and the only reason it survived and made cinema history is because Lucas wasn't directing.
There was no mention of sender pays postage as a solution.
Sender pays _today_. You can't send a single email without a data line and at least client software running on some form of computer. All these things cost money to _someone_ at some point, so while the sender costs are minimal they exist. And yeah, they don't pay per-msg postage. The point is there's no reason to have two extremes: untrusted anonymail _or_ per-message postal fees. It's a false dichotomy, which only benefits those that hold those positions.
Anything that prevents anonymous email has an inherent central control which the internet doesn't need more of.
Fair enough, there should always be an option to send mail anonymously. However, don't be surprised if anonymail becomes a Nth class citizen if we start ranking transports and exchangers by trust.
(bad form to self-reply, I know :p) ... How about those 'trusted' sources running DNS servers that provide MX resolution for domains? Granted you'd need DNSSEC to trust them that far (and RFC3445 kinda kills the 'put the key in DNS' idea) but the USPS, various national posts, UN, verisign, etc could run DNS servers that handle MX resolution for domains so you can point your MX configuration at those domain servers ala the RBL. Extra sneaky points to building an entire root DNS dedicated to MX.
It's more of a TWL (Trusted Whitehole List) than an RBL (Realtime Blackhole List).
Of course, it goes without saying that all of this is pissing in the wind as long as people's pain threshold is still higher than the bother of implementing all this.
IMHO the real way to lock mail down is to use PGP keys to authenticate legitimate MXs, and blacklist/expire certs that misbehave. Add an X header that signs the payload hash with its own seckey, then send to the destination to have it verify before delivery.
'Trusted' sources (including national post offices) could generate and certify keys for these servers, and expire/blacklist them if they're abused. Put the pubkey into a DNS record for the MX.
Legacy mail not in this system could be flagged as 'untrusted' and jailed appropriately.
Thanks for the reply.. I've downloaded and installed MW on my workstation, in order to see if I can hack in features I'm interested in:
* contributor 'reliability' ranking
* coloring contributions based on their author's ranking
* LDAP authentication/access control
The first two look to be especially taxing, though if I insert hidden text into submissions and trap that text in render rather than try to rejigger the system to dynamically reassemble pages from a base + diffs it could be doable...
.... Can someone provide a nice rundown on why I should choose one wiki package over another?
License, Ease-of-use, Power, Compatibility, Language should all be in the chart.
This is getting confusing!
The primary downsides to Nuclear Batteries is that they are expensive and they don't scale.
:p
They're also not rechargable
i just freakin hate the way gtk apps look, feel, and operate.. the dialouge is definitely not my cup of tea.. so this, is like a blessing..
gimp2 looks pretty good using the GTK-Qt theme.
But I'll definitely try anything native Qt as long as it includes gimp's featureset...
If all you need is more RAM, just look for the cheapest Matrox or NV card with enough RAM.
;)
If the chrome ever finally gets rendered as GL textures, you'll want an NV card, even a lower end one.
Then again, by the time GL texture 2D is stable, a FX5900 will be the value selection
Of course, ATI could shock and surprise everyone by building drivers that don't suck, but I'm not holding my breath.
Asterisk doesn't have native LDAP support, but it's not very hard to write a script that produces a set of Asterisk config files out of LDAP data. With a bit more work, you could script Asterisk to do LDAP lookups, but it'll take too much work to be worth it for small (100 users) sites.
;)
With LDAP you can get interesting stuff like injecting voicemails to IMAP mailboxes, having group extensions (like helpdesk) inject voicemail to group mailboxes, etc..
I'm just thinking how neat it would be to have a voicemail password be dtmf(lc($passplain)) so you'd have single signon
I wonder if it can fit in a WRT54 or other cheap home router for just this purpose?
Even if you have to mount an external storage server, it could be a cute toy...
Is the extra stuff on the pricier fones (such as, say, alphanum LCD extension/callerid readout) supported?
I'd be interested enough to pay the functionality, but obviously only if it's supported..