Wait, didn't some guys already do this? RedvsBlue.com
Church: Tucker, we don't have time for this. Why would they give us a teleporter if it doesn't work?
Tucker: I don't know! Why would they give us a tank that no one can drive?
Church: We already tested the teleporter, remember?
Tucker: We threw rocks through it!
Church: Yeah, and? So what? The rocks came out the other side, didn't they?
Tucker: Yeah, but they were all hot and covered with black stuff.
Church: Oh, so I guess that's what this is all about, then. You're afraid of a little black stuff.
Tucker: Yes, I am. I am afraid of black stuff.
Church: Tucker,// aims assault rifle at Tucker's head// I almost hate to do this to you...
Tucker: You wouldn't.
Church: You know, I look at it this way: either a) we go through there, and get the flag back, or b) we stay here and I get to kill you. Either way, I win.
Tucker: For the record, I want you to know, rocks aren't people.
"True. But I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -- The Professor in Robert Heinlein's
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
I don't use adblock, my computer just happens to believe itself to be the master DNS server for places like doubleclick:
zone "doubleclick.net" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.empty"; };
Obviously this trick only works when the ad server names are different from the real servers, but hey I'm willing to accept that. My main beaf is with the ad servers being uber-slow and slowing down page loading.
Do these "low profile workstations" use laptop style hard drives? Cause I'm have similar failure rates with the hard drives dell uses in their laptops.
The UP of Michigan. You just have to be used to getting snow, lots of snow. Enough snow to shut down most urban areas, but we just keep on going. Enough snow that you can walk out the second floors of most buildings and not fall. The only nice thing is that the snow fall is pretty reliable. Few blizzards, just constant, constant snowfall. We also live away from most of the primary and secondary nuclear weapons targets here in Houghton.
Although the geology majors say that my dorm lies across an inactive fault line.
The only things more boring than news about Hurricanes in Florida are: * Forest Fires out West * Earthquakes in California
Volcanoes going off are actually interesting.
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Actually I sent these people some email after hearing a claim of this being a first (which isn't true, project Corona did mid-air recovery of returning space capsules) and they have a few people who did this during project Corona.
I would actually say view 1 is correct, but only because the Constitution was written to control the government not the people. So the proper viewpoint for answering the question is the government's not the people's.
It's a firewire harddrive with the right drivers. Noone looks twice at the thing, becasue most people think it's just for music, so your boss isn't gonna think you're smuggling out sourcecode.
Once I used a digital camera as a storage device to get network drivers onto a Windows 2000 workstation.
On the hiding data side, for awhile I had jokingly stored my filesystem's encryption key (loop-AES for the curious) on a 5.25" Sim City install disk. At other times the key has been on a 3.5" AOL 2.5 disk and the digital camera as referenced above. I've been wanting to try putting it on my palm pilot and/or graphic calculator.
You know it might seem silly now, but at the time setuid was well worth patenting. It only seems silly because we have grown so dependent on it.
Microsoft's patent is different from su or sudo because it requires a BACKGROUND service to run all the time and the un-privileged program asks this service to run the program. It is thanks to the setuid bit that on UNIX we don't need to have sudo/su running as a daemon, we can simply mark the binary setuid and have it verify our rights when it starts up.
A high ranking Admiral drives up to the gate of a naval base. This base has a policy of 100% check of ID cards and there is a new Marine on guard duty at the gate. Marine: I need to see your ID. Admiral: I don't have time for this nonsense. (to the driver) Go ahead. Marine: Don't do that. Admiral to driver: You heard me, Drive on. Marine draws his sidearm and says: Sir, this is my first time on post. Do I shoot you or your driver?
I'll second this, I've also been on ritalin and other ADD medication. When I'm not taking it part of my mind always tends to be off in it's own little world thinking about things. When I get really bored (like in some classes) it occasionally heads completely into it's own world. The ritalin stops keeps my entire mind stuck in reality. It sucks when I'm on it and desperately want to tune someone out.
Its like the ritalin keeps my brain from multitasking. This sucks because one of my favorite ways of solving hard problems is to go do something that doesn't involve much thinking (doom, mowing the lawn, etc) and let my brain wander off into it's own world and work on it.
There are two plaques on Launch Complex 34 at Cape Canaveral. This is the place the Apollo 1 fire happened.
The first one says: "They gave their lives in service to their country in the ongoing exploration of humankind's final frontier. Remember them not for how they died, but for those ideals for which they lived."
The other plaque says: "In Memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice so that others could reach for the stars. Ad Astra Per Aspera (A rough road leads to the stars)"
Thats exactly what I was going to point out. All my xterms are 80 columns, likewise with my NEdit window. My console runs a framebuffer at 1280x1024 and will do twice that.
I'm not a coder, so I may be jumping to the wrong conclusions, but is there something about perl that invites awful HTML?
Sure, you always end up with horribly unmaintainable code. So the HTML never gets fixed up because no one wants to touch the PERL script. I should know, my website is done in PERL and everytime I go to fix the script I end up re-writing the entire script instead.
OTOH my website is either valid XHTML 1.1 + CSS2 or valid HTML 2.0 depending on my mood. (yes I can flip it back and forth)
Slashdot Mirror
pffft
One more reason to run your own DNS server:
zone "falkag.net" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.empty"; };
Wait, didn't some guys already do this?
// aims assault rifle at Tucker's head // I almost hate to do this to you...
RedvsBlue.com
Church: Tucker, we don't have time for this. Why would they give us a teleporter if it doesn't work?
Tucker: I don't know! Why would they give us a tank that no one can drive?
Church: We already tested the teleporter, remember?
Tucker: We threw rocks through it!
Church: Yeah, and? So what? The rocks came out the other side, didn't they?
Tucker: Yeah, but they were all hot and covered with black stuff.
Church: Oh, so I guess that's what this is all about, then. You're afraid of a little black stuff.
Tucker: Yes, I am. I am afraid of black stuff.
Church: Tucker,
Tucker: You wouldn't.
Church: You know, I look at it this way: either a) we go through there, and get the flag back, or b) we stay here and I get to kill you. Either way, I win.
Tucker: For the record, I want you to know, rocks aren't people.
Church: Duly noted. Now get in there.
For the curious that quote comes from Heinlein's first published story, Life-line.
Its in the Expanded Universe collection I think.
We have optical scan machines made by some company other than Diebold over here in Grandville.
Most of my friend's absentee ballots are identical to mine, so I assume these machines have become pretty standardized across michigan.
Yeah but that was on april fools' day and doesn't count. They were doing that on purpose.
Who cares about Linux!
I want one for Solaris
(this post brought to you by MSIE 5 for Solaris)
Do these "low profile workstations" use laptop style hard drives? Cause I'm have similar failure rates with the hard drives dell uses in their laptops.
The UP of Michigan. You just have to be used to getting snow, lots of snow. Enough snow to shut down most urban areas, but we just keep on going. Enough snow that you can walk out the second floors of most buildings and not fall. The only nice thing is that the snow fall is pretty reliable. Few blizzards, just constant, constant snowfall. We also live away from most of the primary and secondary nuclear weapons targets here in Houghton.
Although the geology majors say that my dorm lies across an inactive fault line.
The only things more boring than news about Hurricanes in Florida are:
* Forest Fires out West
* Earthquakes in California
Volcanoes going off are actually interesting.
Actually I sent these people some email after hearing a claim of this being a first (which isn't true, project Corona did mid-air recovery of returning space capsules) and they have a few people who did this during project Corona.
Closest Thing to a Corona Homepage
I would actually say view 1 is correct, but only because the Constitution was written to control the government not the people. So the proper viewpoint for answering the question is the government's not the people's.
Once I used a digital camera as a storage device to get network drivers onto a Windows 2000 workstation.
On the hiding data side, for awhile I had jokingly stored my filesystem's encryption key (loop-AES for the curious) on a 5.25" Sim City install disk. At other times the key has been on a 3.5" AOL 2.5 disk and the digital camera as referenced above. I've been wanting to try putting it on my palm pilot and/or graphic calculator.
You know it might seem silly now, but at the time setuid was well worth patenting. It only seems silly because we have grown so dependent on it.
Microsoft's patent is different from su or sudo because it requires a BACKGROUND service to run all the time and the un-privileged program asks this service to run the program. It is thanks to the setuid bit that on UNIX we don't need to have sudo/su running as a daemon, we can simply mark the binary setuid and have it verify our rights when it starts up.
Yeah I read about that in a different book.
IIRC Rickover also refused to sign one of the papers he technically needed to get a security clearence or something.
Here is another variant:
A high ranking Admiral drives up to the gate of a naval base. This base has a policy of 100% check of ID cards and there is a new Marine on guard duty at the gate.
Marine: I need to see your ID.
Admiral: I don't have time for this nonsense. (to the driver) Go ahead.
Marine: Don't do that.
Admiral to driver: You heard me, Drive on.
Marine draws his sidearm and says: Sir, this is my first time on post. Do I shoot you or your driver?
Debian has minesweeper in aptitude
I'll second this, I've also been on ritalin and other ADD medication. When I'm not taking it part of my mind always tends to be off in it's own little world thinking about things. When I get really bored (like in some classes) it occasionally heads completely into it's own world. The ritalin stops keeps my entire mind stuck in reality. It sucks when I'm on it and desperately want to tune someone out.
Its like the ritalin keeps my brain from multitasking. This sucks because one of my favorite ways of solving hard problems is to go do something that doesn't involve much thinking (doom, mowing the lawn, etc) and let my brain wander off into it's own world and work on it.
I though it was the sensible party, the sillly party, and the very silly party?
There are two plaques on Launch Complex 34 at Cape Canaveral. This is the place the Apollo 1 fire happened.
The first one says:
"They gave their lives in service to their country in the ongoing exploration of humankind's final frontier. Remember them not for how they died, but for those ideals for which they lived."
The other plaque says:
"In Memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice so that others could reach for the stars. Ad Astra Per Aspera (A rough road leads to the stars)"
There is also the date and crew listing.
Thats exactly what I was going to point out. All my xterms are 80 columns, likewise with my NEdit window. My console runs a framebuffer at 1280x1024 and will do twice that.
Doc: I'm a pacifist.
Caboose: You're a thing that babies suck on?
Tucker: No dude, thats a pedophile.
Church: Tucker, I think he means a pacifier.
Thats why corporate anti-virus software requires a password to disable it, even temporarily.
Sure, you always end up with horribly unmaintainable code. So the HTML never gets fixed up because no one wants to touch the PERL script. I should know, my website is done in PERL and everytime I go to fix the script I end up re-writing the entire script instead.
OTOH my website is either valid XHTML 1.1 + CSS2 or valid HTML 2.0 depending on my mood. (yes I can flip it back and forth)