Here here. I agree whole heartedly, if it's done well. I'd love to combine my ssn and drivers license into one, as long as it's still optional that I have one. And I hope that the magnetic strip on the back only contains anonymous info, nothing to do with myself. Just if my id is valid or not, and other minimalistic information like age. My number could be printed on the front, so no one could simply steal my name/number through a scanner. You would be forced to type the more "personal" information in, so I knowingly can refuse to let someone harvest that information. Plus it's more overhead to type it in, so it takes work to harvest the information, not just a no brainer scan. Or, have the strip totally optional all together.
After reading this article, I feel like taking a fat magnet to my license. "Huh... scanner doesn't work? that's odd. Wonder what's wrong.. I'll have to get a new license (yeah right)."
That's the part that always facinated me. With all that radiation comming in with no magnetic field things must start mutating faster. Ooo, real life X-Men perhaps? Or Maybe that's what really killed off the dinosaurs.
All sorts of fun sci fi possibilities.:)
I learned this in HS actually, AP Senior physics. Had a really cool teacher (Mr. Varner, dunno first name) who taught all sorts of neat things like this. His idea of a sat night was a six pack and head bangers ball, not bad for a 50 yo teacher. I thought he was the coolest teacher at the time; hell, I still do, he's up there in my top 5 teachers.:) Physics in college was nothing but boring equations all the time.:(
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What's with lack of poll options? I hate being forced to choose cowboy neal all the time because none of the above apply. How about...
I've never had any experience with any IBM drives.
Is this poll option really so difficult to fathom? Sorry nothing personal, I'm just venting.:)
I stick to WD, because I haven't had one fail on me yet (knock on wood). I still have in working condition: 1.6G, 2 6.4G's, 18 G, 45G, ~80G. They're all in regularly used machines, except the 1.6G, because it's tiny.:) I retired that machine maybe a year ago... heh.
The problem with the SV24 is that it sounds like a jet airplane in my bedroom. A c3 (instead of 1ghz celeron) would have helped, but when playing divx movies and the like under linux, you need all the horsepower you can get. One of these days I'll figure a way to hack a quieter case/cpu/psu fan into. psu fan might be scary to replace, but unfortunately, it's the noisiest fan of the bunch.
If there was a way for me to grab one tarball and./configure; make install, then I'd actually check it out this. I simply don't have the time (ok I have the time, but there's other things I should be doing) to do that to 20 different packages.
Oh and even if I did configure 20, ok now that I look at it again, 30+ packages, what's uninstallation like to clean up if I decide to go back to plain old wmaker? I've always how hated linux spreads it's files all over the place:/ Or is there a way to./configure; make debs?
I know, there this page which simplifies compiling a lot for stable sources, but I can't find a page like this for gnome 2 beta 2.
Openssh has had many "problems" because of how closely the OpenBSD people scrutinize their code, and because they're open about it. Not because it's insecure.
Would you rather only 15 people knew about an exploit on a closed source daemon? It would never get fixed then. And you'd never know what hit you that way if you did get rooted.
If you feel iffy about ssh using port 22, hide it on port 63234 or something if you want. Sure it's security through obscurity, but it never hurts to have multiple layers of security.
I've I know i've done it before. I just upgraded a machine from.9.6b to.9.6c maybe about a month ago. I know I did it remotely, because I'm far to lazy to get up and walk over to the rack and plug in a keyboard/monitor unless I have to.:) And I know I haven't had to hook up a keyboard/mouse to the rack in awhile.
Maybe it worked because it was a minor version upgrade?
Sure I do it all the time, I'd suggest install the newest openssl first. Then unpack openssh and cd into the dir:
./configure --with-md5-passwords --etc etc etc, configure options here make cat/var/run/sshd.pid kill <pid from above command>
This kills off the master ssh process, you will still stay connected, just don't kill off any other ssh processes.
Now:
make install /usr/local/sbin/sshd (or wherever you installed it to start it up)
Don't dissconnect yet! Try sshing in again and see if the machine is accepting connections, if not, you might have to try giving it different./configure options, like --without-pam, --ipv4-by-default etc
If it's your first time try it remotely, you might not want to do this on a server that's a 3 hour drive away.:) FYI, I've already upgraded 3 servers this way just 30 minutes ago, still have many more....:(
Ok, companies need to make money to stay afloat yes, so what does that have to do with anything? Just because a company needs to make money off of a codec, that means we should ignore the free one's and pay money for the proprietary ones like good little capitalists?
Some companies are just destined to fail if their product isn't attractive enough, that's life. I'm not saying KT-Tech should fail or not, I don't know because I don't have a windows machine at work here to easily run the demo on to compare formats. (we'll I do have a windows machine here, but it's more trouble thans it's worth)
Well I just got cvs php4.2.0-dev to compile against apache2, with some tweaking of the php4/configure file that buildconf generates, so the support is there. I tried using php 4.1.1 but it was having nothing of the sorts, I modified the configure file the same way, but make gave me some error from outerspace halfway through the compile, which unforunately is long gone off my rxvt buffer.:/
Apache2 with php4 was up and running for a little bit, I hit one php page, it worked fine, and I think apache2 segfaulted sometime after that, I might have hit the status page first. Now apache2 won't even start with php4 enabled, no error messages, no nothing, not even turning on debug in the error_log, still no messages. It simply doesn't start. If I disable the php module it starts fine. Oh well, guess I'll stick to apache 1.3.23 for the time being.
Here's a piece of the error_log for anyone intersted: [Wed Feb 20 13:06:22 2002] [notice] Apache/2.0.32 (Unix) PHP/4.2.0-dev configured -- resuming normal operations [Wed Feb 20 13:06:45 2002] [error] [client 216.4.165.11] Invalid method in request ***binary junk here/. hates, this message 4 times, around 4 seconds apart*** [Wed Feb 20 13:10:59 2002] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart [Wed Feb 20 13:11:08 2002] [notice] seg fault or similar nasty error detected in the parent process [Wed Feb 20 13:27:52 2002] [notice] Apache/2.0.32 (Unix) configured -- resuming normal operations
Dude, you're getting a dell! Only $900 for a smoking x86 system (plus maybe $40 for a 256 meg stick of ram), xp and ms works suite, everything else that *I* need, I can get free, sans games.
Don't get me wrong, I love mac hardware. I love the idea of controlled hardware and an OS tuned to it. (I always used to be an Amiga man up until I found out I was missing out on doom2.:), but you're kidding yourself when you say it's not expensive. For instance if my CPU is too slow, I can buy a new mobo for $100, new cpu for $150, and maybe new ram for $60, now I have myself a PC that's now with the times. Anyway, what were we talking about?:)
Oh yes, full blown Office Suites and how expesive they are compared to the OS. Damn it would be nice if everyone just would settle for notepad/wordpad.:)
Sure you can buy iMac for 800 bucks if you don't mind 128 megs of ram, only a 500mhz cpu, and crappy ati rage 128 video, but if you want a *decent* iMac with a half ass video card (nvidia gf2 mx:P), 800mhz cpu, still only 256 megs of ram, it'll be $1800 since that's the only way to get the top cpu, that does include a flatpanel, but still that's quite a difference pricewise.
Sure you can upgrade some things yourself, but most mac people can't, and won't. And you can't easily put in a new video card/faster cpu in an iMac. Whatever happened to the mac "flashship" line anyway?
I'm going to stick to my solid, name brand x86 hardware for the time being until Apple can compete again pricewise, or give me something extra that a PC can't do (other than pretty).
And on a side note, I've been doing without an office suite for almost a year now at work, running Debian linux, mozilla and staroffice (which is slow, yes, but it works for those few word documents I receive, and the p3-850 is pretty snappy). I haven't had one yet that it couldn't open. I don't think what I'm running for my OS is really all that complicated, sure some of the software is under par compared to things certain multi billion dollar corporations put out, but I get along. That's the price my cheap ass pays for free.:)
I'm a web developer so mostly all I do is programming, but do I get my share of spec word docs to look over and follow. And I still do have find a windows pc every now and then to make sure a web page works in IE's "jscript/activex scripting".:)
Dang, why stop there, write something in ASM and flash it right on the bios. Wasn't there a linux bios project awhile back?:) I wonder how much progress they've made.
Yes but you could potentially combine the two methods, use a floppy to boot up, and after the system is up and running and the custom firewall config file is read, go to run level 0 and eject the disk just for fun.:)
Might be a fun feature to add to floppyfw if it isn't already (which it doesn't sound like it from skimming over the page).
Well if you have drives mounted, even read only, then someone could potentially get in and bounce off the firewall to attack another machine on the inside of your firewall using processes and utilities on the drive that you mounted. Whereas if you didn't have the drive mounted to begin with, then no one could get in, even you! And that's the point.
This definitely isn't a method for everyone, it's for really paraniod, stable networks that don't change. If your network doesn't fit this description, then your way might be the next best thing.
Thanks for the response, you cleared some things up for me, but I'm still kind of shakey on the users.
Now looking at the documentation in pg_hba.conf (heh):
# DBNAME can be:
# o the name of a PostgreSQL database
# o "all" to indicate all databases
# o "sameuser" to allow access only to databases with the same
# name as the connecting user
The user will have access to the database with the same name as the username, but that user has TOTAL access to that database, right? Is there way I can ONLY give a user SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and maybe DELETE. (such as a web user)
It seems to me there must be a way, I just haven't found one yet...
After reading and playing a bit more, it looks like the md5 password method is the preffered password method, although at first glance it looks like when I add md5 password lines to my pg_hba.conf, I had a weird annomally.
I installed webpg (new phpmyadmin verion) and normal users could log in with passwords, but if you typed in the password in wrong, the user was still allowed in! Assumingly because the web server is really a local user can therefore can be trusted by the default install.
Anyway, so I take out the trust lines from the my pg_hba.conf but now the postgres user can't log in because it doesn't have a password.... *sigh* These kinds of things are the problems I see with multiple log in methods, since the default login method doesn't use passwords, it's not suitable for remote access.
I'll continue to play... I'm probably still missunderstanding something though.
I've been using mysql for close to three years now, maybe around 6 months back I tried out postgresql, I switched a site or two over to using it. I did some lame inaccurtate benchmarking of a "typic page", pgsql was twice as slow at the time using v7.1, untweaked, but mysql was also untweaked.
Anyway's let me tell you, pgsql's user permissions still make my head swim, it's a nightmare. I mean, ok there's like how many different ways to authenticate a user, plain text password, crypted password, now md5, ident, local ident, kerberos, etc etc. Seriously, what's the "preferred" way to add a normal, non super user, only has select, insert, update, and delete access to a given database that can connect from the local machine, and remotely. Is this even possible? (yes I know you have to give it the -i option for network access)
I guess another kind of oddity about the pgsql is that out of the box, it only does ident type local socket authetication, no tcp/ip. You have to add all these weird rules to a config file to enable these mysterious, "accounts with passwords". Documentation inside the actual config files makes me dead btw.
I've looked forever, but I've yet to find a "mysql to postgresql" quick start guide. I know, rtfm, and figure it out, trust me I have, there's a boat load postgresql docs all split over 10 different manuals it seems.
Also, would it be darn nice to include a start/stop script that reads only config files and can be linked from/etc/rc2.d/ etc. pg_ctl doesn't exactly cut it. I wrote one myself that's basically a wrapper for pg_ctl, but it's a major hack, I can clean it up and post it if anyone's intersted.
Overall a good db, it definitely takes way longer than mysql to set up and understand, but the added features make it worthwhile. Even if you don't use the triggers, out the box transactions, and sub query support right away, you'll be glad when do finally want to use them to help you out with data integrity. Sorry, I'm rambling, I have no real point, this is more of a "this is my experience with this thing post". Maybe it will be of some use to someone, and hopefully I'll get an intelligent post or two setting me straight.:)
Not really true, I tried getting a cable modem in my area (Gaithersburg, MD) and the service was horrible, probably due to an overloaded network and it being oversold. If it's 100x faster then maybe I could actually play quake3 online without a 2000 ms ping. Yes the ping was that bad. Without the UDP packets flowing, my ping was probably 30ms to the server.
The weird thin is the same cable modem on the other side of town where I used to live had supurb service.
Scary as it may seem, I feel you've actually hit on something there. I've always firmly believed that the people that want to be in political positions are exactly the people who shouldn't be allowed to be. We should just have all the smart people sign up for a draft to be president.
Ok, so I don't exactly believe all this, but I do find it rather interesting.
They change the aspect ratio so much I can't stand it. I'm a casual STTNG watcher, and am tempted every time it's on TNN, but I force myself to keep going. I can't stand that bar. I'd much rather turn off the tv and feed/. trolls than force myself to watch squash-o-vision.
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Already added it to my lame page. :)
Here here. I agree whole heartedly, if it's done well. I'd love to combine my ssn and drivers license into one, as long as it's still optional that I have one. And I hope that the magnetic strip on the back only contains anonymous info, nothing to do with myself. Just if my id is valid or not, and other minimalistic information like age. My number could be printed on the front, so no one could simply steal my name/number through a scanner. You would be forced to type the more "personal" information in, so I knowingly can refuse to let someone harvest that information. Plus it's more overhead to type it in, so it takes work to harvest the information, not just a no brainer scan. Or, have the strip totally optional all together.
After reading this article, I feel like taking a fat magnet to my license. "Huh... scanner doesn't work? that's odd. Wonder what's wrong.. I'll have to get a new license (yeah right)."
That's the part that always facinated me. With all that radiation comming in with no magnetic field things must start mutating faster. Ooo, real life X-Men perhaps? Or Maybe that's what really killed off the dinosaurs.
:)
:) Physics in college was nothing but boring equations all the time. :(
All sorts of fun sci fi possibilities.
I learned this in HS actually, AP Senior physics. Had a really cool teacher (Mr. Varner, dunno first name) who taught all sorts of neat things like this. His idea of a sat night was a six pack and head bangers ball, not bad for a 50 yo teacher. I thought he was the coolest teacher at the time; hell, I still do, he's up there in my top 5 teachers.
I've never had any experience with any IBM drives.
:)
:) I retired that machine maybe a year ago... heh.
Is this poll option really so difficult to fathom? Sorry nothing personal, I'm just venting.
I stick to WD, because I haven't had one fail on me yet (knock on wood). I still have in working condition: 1.6G, 2 6.4G's, 18 G, 45G, ~80G. They're all in regularly used machines, except the 1.6G, because it's tiny.
The problem with the SV24 is that it sounds like a jet airplane in my bedroom. A c3 (instead of 1ghz celeron) would have helped, but when playing divx movies and the like under linux, you need all the horsepower you can get. One of these days I'll figure a way to hack a quieter case/cpu/psu fan into. psu fan might be scary to replace, but unfortunately, it's the noisiest fan of the bunch.
Ya, saw that post after I already posted. I'll have to check it out.
If there was a way for me to grab one tarball and ./configure; make install, then I'd actually check it out this. I simply don't have the time (ok I have the time, but there's other things I should be doing) to do that to 20 different packages.
:/ Or is there a way to ./configure; make debs?
Oh and even if I did configure 20, ok now that I look at it again, 30+ packages, what's uninstallation like to clean up if I decide to go back to plain old wmaker? I've always how hated linux spreads it's files all over the place
I know, there this page which simplifies compiling a lot for stable sources, but I can't find a page like this for gnome 2 beta 2.
Openssh has had many "problems" because of how closely the OpenBSD people scrutinize their code, and because they're open about it. Not because it's insecure.
Would you rather only 15 people knew about an exploit on a closed source daemon? It would never get fixed then. And you'd never know what hit you that way if you did get rooted.
If you feel iffy about ssh using port 22, hide it on port 63234 or something if you want. Sure it's security through obscurity, but it never hurts to have multiple layers of security.
I've I know i've done it before. I just upgraded a machine from .9.6b to .9.6c maybe about a month ago. I know I did it remotely, because I'm far to lazy to get up and walk over to the rack and plug in a keyboard/monitor unless I have to. :) And I know I haven't had to hook up a keyboard/mouse to the rack in awhile.
Maybe it worked because it was a minor version upgrade?
Doh, I suck, beatten to it. Maybe I should reload the comments page more often, or not get phone calls delaying my precious slashdot reading. :(
Sure I do it all the time, I'd suggest install the newest openssl first. Then unpack openssh and cd into the dir:
/var/run/sshd.pid
./configure options, like --without-pam, --ipv4-by-default etc
:) FYI, I've already upgraded 3 servers this way just 30 minutes ago, still have many more.... :(
./configure --with-md5-passwords --etc etc etc, configure options here
make
cat
kill <pid from above command>
This kills off the master ssh process, you will still stay connected, just don't kill off any other ssh processes.
Now:
make install
/usr/local/sbin/sshd (or wherever you installed it to start it up)
Don't dissconnect yet! Try sshing in again and see if the machine is accepting connections, if not, you might have to try giving it different
If it's your first time try it remotely, you might not want to do this on a server that's a 3 hour drive away.
Ok, companies need to make money to stay afloat yes, so what does that have to do with anything? Just because a company needs to make money off of a codec, that means we should ignore the free one's and pay money for the proprietary ones like good little capitalists?
Some companies are just destined to fail if their product isn't attractive enough, that's life. I'm not saying KT-Tech should fail or not, I don't know because I don't have a windows machine at work here to easily run the demo on to compare formats. (we'll I do have a windows machine here, but it's more trouble thans it's worth)
Well I just got cvs php4.2.0-dev to compile against apache2, with some tweaking of the php4/configure file that buildconf generates, so the support is there. I tried using php 4.1.1 but it was having nothing of the sorts, I modified the configure file the same way, but make gave me some error from outerspace halfway through the compile, which unforunately is long gone off my rxvt buffer. :/
/. hates, this message 4 times, around 4 seconds apart***
Apache2 with php4 was up and running for a little bit, I hit one php page, it worked fine, and I think apache2 segfaulted sometime after that, I might have hit the status page first. Now apache2 won't even start with php4 enabled, no error messages, no nothing, not even turning on debug in the error_log, still no messages. It simply doesn't start. If I disable the php module it starts fine. Oh well, guess I'll stick to apache 1.3.23 for the time being.
Here's a piece of the error_log for anyone intersted:
[Wed Feb 20 13:06:22 2002] [notice] Apache/2.0.32 (Unix) PHP/4.2.0-dev configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Feb 20 13:06:45 2002] [error] [client 216.4.165.11] Invalid method in request ***binary junk here
[Wed Feb 20 13:10:59 2002] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Wed Feb 20 13:11:08 2002] [notice] seg fault or similar nasty error detected in the parent process
[Wed Feb 20 13:27:52 2002] [notice] Apache/2.0.32 (Unix) configured -- resuming normal operations
Dude, you're getting a dell! Only $900 for a smoking x86 system (plus maybe $40 for a 256 meg stick of ram), xp and ms works suite, everything else that *I* need, I can get free, sans games.
:), but you're kidding yourself when you say it's not expensive. For instance if my CPU is too slow, I can buy a new mobo for $100, new cpu for $150, and maybe new ram for $60, now I have myself a PC that's now with the times. Anyway, what were we talking about? :)
:)
Don't get me wrong, I love mac hardware. I love the idea of controlled hardware and an OS tuned to it. (I always used to be an Amiga man up until I found out I was missing out on doom2.
Oh yes, full blown Office Suites and how expesive they are compared to the OS. Damn it would be nice if everyone just would settle for notepad/wordpad.
iMac prices here
:P), 800mhz cpu, still only 256 megs of ram, it'll be $1800 since that's the only way to get the top cpu, that does include a flatpanel, but still that's quite a difference pricewise.
:)
:)
Sure you can buy iMac for 800 bucks if you don't mind 128 megs of ram, only a 500mhz cpu, and crappy ati rage 128 video, but if you want a *decent* iMac with a half ass video card (nvidia gf2 mx
Sure you can upgrade some things yourself, but most mac people can't, and won't. And you can't easily put in a new video card/faster cpu in an iMac. Whatever happened to the mac "flashship" line anyway?
I'm going to stick to my solid, name brand x86 hardware for the time being until Apple can compete again pricewise, or give me something extra that a PC can't do (other than pretty).
And on a side note, I've been doing without an office suite for almost a year now at work, running Debian linux, mozilla and staroffice (which is slow, yes, but it works for those few word documents I receive, and the p3-850 is pretty snappy). I haven't had one yet that it couldn't open. I don't think what I'm running for my OS is really all that complicated, sure some of the software is under par compared to things certain multi billion dollar corporations put out, but I get along. That's the price my cheap ass pays for free.
I'm a web developer so mostly all I do is programming, but do I get my share of spec word docs to look over and follow. And I still do have find a windows pc every now and then to make sure a web page works in IE's "jscript/activex scripting".
Dang, why stop there, write something in ASM and flash it right on the bios. Wasn't there a linux bios project awhile back? :) I wonder how much progress they've made.
Yes but you could potentially combine the two methods, use a floppy to boot up, and after the system is up and running and the custom firewall config file is read, go to run level 0 and eject the disk just for fun. :)
Might be a fun feature to add to floppyfw if it isn't already (which it doesn't sound like it from skimming over the page).
Well if you have drives mounted, even read only, then someone could potentially get in and bounce off the firewall to attack another machine on the inside of your firewall using processes and utilities on the drive that you mounted. Whereas if you didn't have the drive mounted to begin with, then no one could get in, even you! And that's the point.
This definitely isn't a method for everyone, it's for really paraniod, stable networks that don't change. If your network doesn't fit this description, then your way might be the next best thing.
Thanks for the response, you cleared some things up for me, but I'm still kind of shakey on the users.
Now looking at the documentation in pg_hba.conf (heh):
# DBNAME can be:
# o the name of a PostgreSQL database
# o "all" to indicate all databases
# o "sameuser" to allow access only to databases with the same
# name as the connecting user
The user will have access to the database with the same name as the username, but that user has TOTAL access to that database, right? Is there way I can ONLY give a user SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and maybe DELETE. (such as a web user)
It seems to me there must be a way, I just haven't found one yet...
After reading and playing a bit more, it looks like the md5 password method is the preffered password method, although at first glance it looks like when I add md5 password lines to my pg_hba.conf, I had a weird annomally.
I installed webpg (new phpmyadmin verion) and normal users could log in with passwords, but if you typed in the password in wrong, the user was still allowed in! Assumingly because the web server is really a local user can therefore can be trusted by the default install.
Anyway, so I take out the trust lines from the my pg_hba.conf but now the postgres user can't log in because it doesn't have a password.... *sigh* These kinds of things are the problems I see with multiple log in methods, since the default login method doesn't use passwords, it's not suitable for remote access.
I'll continue to play... I'm probably still missunderstanding something though.
I've been using mysql for close to three years now, maybe around 6 months back I tried out postgresql, I switched a site or two over to using it. I did some lame inaccurtate benchmarking of a "typic page", pgsql was twice as slow at the time using v7.1, untweaked, but mysql was also untweaked.
/etc/rc2.d/ etc. pg_ctl doesn't exactly cut it. I wrote one myself that's basically a wrapper for pg_ctl, but it's a major hack, I can clean it up and post it if anyone's intersted.
:)
Anyway's let me tell you, pgsql's user permissions still make my head swim, it's a nightmare. I mean, ok there's like how many different ways to authenticate a user, plain text password, crypted password, now md5, ident, local ident, kerberos, etc etc. Seriously, what's the "preferred" way to add a normal, non super user, only has select, insert, update, and delete access to a given database that can connect from the local machine, and remotely. Is this even possible? (yes I know you have to give it the -i option for network access)
I guess another kind of oddity about the pgsql is that out of the box, it only does ident type local socket authetication, no tcp/ip. You have to add all these weird rules to a config file to enable these mysterious, "accounts with passwords". Documentation inside the actual config files makes me dead btw.
I've looked forever, but I've yet to find a "mysql to postgresql" quick start guide. I know, rtfm, and figure it out, trust me I have, there's a boat load postgresql docs all split over 10 different manuals it seems.
Also, would it be darn nice to include a start/stop script that reads only config files and can be linked from
Overall a good db, it definitely takes way longer than mysql to set up and understand, but the added features make it worthwhile. Even if you don't use the triggers, out the box transactions, and sub query support right away, you'll be glad when do finally want to use them to help you out with data integrity. Sorry, I'm rambling, I have no real point, this is more of a "this is my experience with this thing post". Maybe it will be of some use to someone, and hopefully I'll get an intelligent post or two setting me straight.
Not really true, I tried getting a cable modem in my area (Gaithersburg, MD) and the service was horrible, probably due to an overloaded network and it being oversold. If it's 100x faster then maybe I could actually play quake3 online without a 2000 ms ping. Yes the ping was that bad. Without the UDP packets flowing, my ping was probably 30ms to the server.
The weird thin is the same cable modem on the other side of town where I used to live had supurb service.
Just click on the non flash version, from the page:
Codecrackers
1. The code might seem tricky, but it's really pretty BASIC.
2. If you're counting with your fingers, you're way off BASE.
3. To crack the code, you need to think FOURward
Gee, I wish all encryption was like that, hitting you in the face with a brick screaming that it's encoded in base 4.
I run a 1600x1280@85 hz desktop on a sony tinitron 21" at work, on a gf2 mx card. The clarity is great, I don't have a single complaint.
The xfree86 nvidia drivers suck at higher res though, the 1600x1280 with those was unuseable.
Granted I'm not the pickest person in the word, but I'd like to think I have pretty decent eye for quality.
Scary as it may seem, I feel you've actually hit on something there. I've always firmly believed that the people that want to be in political positions are exactly the people who shouldn't be allowed to be. We should just have all the smart people sign up for a draft to be president.
Ok, so I don't exactly believe all this, but I do find it rather interesting.
They change the aspect ratio so much I can't stand it. I'm a casual STTNG watcher, and am tempted every time it's on TNN, but I force myself to keep going. I can't stand that bar. I'd much rather turn off the tv and feed /. trolls than force myself to watch squash-o-vision.