That was my thought on this process. Design it so that the algorithm is based off of a "seed" of sorts which generates the sequences and gets changed periodically. Let all of the clients know when the seed changes, and their software will generate the correct sequence. Basically, it's another password to remember and to change.
But, you could also design the software to generate the sequence based on a particular time (even down to the second if you wanted), and have the client and the server synchronized to the same time server.
Combine all of this with the "secure" programs out there right now, and you have a much harder system to crack. Granted, all someone needs is a copy of the software, the seed being used at the time, and access to the same time server, but that's still a decent amount of extra time they'll have to devote to cracking the system.
I don't know much about airwave communications, but this sounds similar to frequency hopping.
We ended up moving all of our scattered Access Databases to MySQL about a year ago, and have never looked back. We still use Access as a front-end to get at the data, and everything has worked beautifully. Using Access gives us a consistent UI for each app, and it's quick and relatively painless to add new apps or features. And, using MySQL for the data is orders of magnitude faster that Access MDB files.
As far as 'enterprise level' features, MySQL is still missing Stored Procedures, easy 2-way replication, and clustering (there are many projects out there that add these features, but none of them are included in the main branch AFAIK). They keep getting closer with each release, though.
No, it's not ready to take on Oracle yet, but for mid-size shops (we regularly have 30-50 concurrent users all day from various remote locations), it's a great product. Slashdot runs it, and they seem to be able to handle quite a bit of a load. It's proven itself to me, but then again, I've never played with Oracle or DB2. It has a very active developer base, so things are changing all the time.
PostgreSQL has more enterprise features, but it's not used as much as MySQL. It seems pretty solid, though. We toyed with a bit, but my boss decided to go with MySQL mainly because he had heard of it before.
Well, I just registered 15 numbers - all of our incoming lines to the company I work for, plus my cell phone and home number. The site only allows 3 numbers per email address, so the best way around it is to register at SpamHole with number of different addresses, all forwarding back to a Hotmail or Yahoo account.
So, the 41 million doesn't really tell a whole lot in terms of how many numbers there are in the country versus the number of people. I'm sure there's a way to find out, though. Anyone have any ideas?
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I'm sure this document is very enlightening to those with the property background knowledge, but any paper with the phrase "according to conventional four-dimenional quantum field theory" (page 3) is a bit beyond my comprehension, and I'm not sure if it can be called easily digestable...
Every email worm out there is designed to pull from it's address book
OE doesn't have an object model to be able to programatically retrieve the address book. Outlook definetly does, but OE does not. The most effective worms/viruses for OE were ones that were able to attach themselves to all outgoing messages undetected. None of them (to my knowledge, correct me if I'm wrong) were able to email everyone in your address book.
I've never quite understod why we can send billions of dollars overseas as foreign aid, yet still have people at home who are homeless, illiterate, and without healthcare
As for homelessness: Every major city that I have been to (most of them) have these things called "homeless shelters". They provide food and shelter to basicallly anyone who walks in the door. They also have programs set up so that they can help people get back on their feet after a setback. The only way that they will deny entry to a person is if that person has an obvious drug or alcohol problem. Most of the "homeless" people you see on the street collecting money are doing that because they have an addiction and can't get into the shelter because of it (which is also a problem, but there are free clinics that can help with that, too). Granted, most of these programs aren't federal, but I feel like it's better dealt with at the local level anyway. Some of them receive federal grants to operate, though.
Illiteracy: Maybe you haven't heard of this concept called the "public school system". It's a system designed to educate people in this country from ages 4 or 5 through roughly 18. During this time, they teach literacy, math, history, and a variety of other subjects. Or, were you talking about people that either dropped out of the public school system or immigrated after they already turned 18? Well, for a very reasonable fee (and sometimes free under the right circumstances), you can take courses to get your G.E.D., which is basically equivalent to a high school diploma. These courses start as basic as you need them to, and then proceed from there. Granted, there are segments of the population that don't force their children to go to school and make them work in family businesses, etc. For the most part, those people are breaking the law.
Healthcare: This is a major problem facing our country today. Insurance companies have steadily driven up the cost of healthcare to unreasonable levels. Enough people that have health insurance are using it improperly, and are going to get X-Rays every time they have a headache. This drives up the insurance prices. Shady lawyers sue the insurance companies and the doctors because they both typically have deep pockets. Just fighting all of the legal battles costs a ton of money, so this gets passed back along to the consumer or the insurance company again. All of this is currently being worked on in various levels of the government, but no one has come up with a one-size-fits-all solution to it, yet. Many other countries have socialized healthcare, but that brings along other problems, too, that I'll refrain from getting into.
That said, there are plenty of free clinics, but there is a price to pay for most of those, too: time. You'll probably waste a lot of time waiting to get in, but isn't that worth it? There are also many health insurance plans offered at the local level (City Hall, local colleges, church organizations) which are very affordable (and again, free sometimes). It's just a matter of knowing about these programs that is the main problem. A lot of people don't know about them, don't go looking for them, or just want to complain about their lack of options.
Another, slightly off-topic example: low-cost housing. I work for a property management company, and we have to deal with about 5 different government agencies that provide subsidized housing. All of them have different regulations, and all of them need to do their own inspections. We have HUD, Rural Development, MAAM, MSHDA (state organization), and different ones for larger cities. They each require seperate reports for each property, and all of them provide the same basic services to the people in need. Why couldn't they be converged into a single entity (at least at the federal level) with a single set of guidelines and one reporting format?
We don't need more social programs, we need to refine and consolidate those that we already have.
I guess it was more the PoliSci girls that had no idea what they were going to do after getting their degree that scared me. The ones that go on to law school typically have some kind of plan for their life, and aren't just floating by.
I agree, though, grouping everyone by major isn't the best system. "Everyone who over-generalizes sucks" fits the bill, I guess. I just knew 4 PoliSci girls that had no idea what life was all about. They were really wierd... So, I grouped 'em all together.
I may be one of the only guys in the world lucky enough to hook up with "the girl" in a CSE course. Turns out, she was kind of a freak, too, which made life pretty interesting for a while. But, that's exactly how I managed to pull it off. Asking if she wanted to "study for an exam" over the weekend, and then after the 2nd study session, we ended up at the bar. Make sure you save enough money for a social life, and don't spend it all on gadgets. Having a decent GPA is a good thing and all, but if you leave college without any social skills, you're doomed to a life of misery or failure or both.
The girl ended up being a blast to hang out with one on one, but couldn't stop talking when we got around larger groups of people, and that was really annoying. So, I had to call it off and move on to chicks in other majors (stay away from Political Science... Chemical Engineers are fun, and the Business and Law School group is cool, too).
I swear, optimism must be a lost cause in the field of science.:)
Although NASA's discovery means the universe will go on forever, the same is not true for human life. As the universe expands, all the energy needed to keep the stars and galaxies alight will be used up. What will remain is a universe full of black holes, which after trillions of years will explode to leave nothing but dark energy
Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, biblical?
Ray: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor... real Wrath-of-God-type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies.
Venkman: Rivers and seas boiling!
Egon: 40 years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanos.
Winston:The dead rising from the grave!
Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together... mass hysteria!
Courtesy of http://www.moviesounds.com/gbusters.html:-)
I just received an email today that my DSL provider is boosting my speed to 960/960 from 512/512 at no additional charge! They are lowering their prices for most users, too!
It's nice when a company does something good for its customers instead of trying to screw them over.
There is a slight incompatibility between Excel documents that contain the "VLOOKUP()", "HLOOKUP()", or "LOOKUP()" commands. OpenOffice implements them exactly as Microsoft has described them, however, Excel has a slightly different implementation than described.
If you're looking for a number in OO, and one of the cells in your range contains text, the LOOKUP command will return an error. But, Excel just ignores it. Since my company has a number of older Excel documents that use that feature, we'd have to change them all in order for OO to work for us. Until then, we have to stick with MS.
I am working on changing those processes and spreadsheets, but it'll take a while before we're able to switch. I really do like OO, but until they either change the implementation (I submitted a bug, but the closed it as "RESOLVED"), or I change the files, we can't use it company-wide.
"Only download from high moderation point users first"
While that might work for a while, I see it is a bigger liability in the long run... The labels haven't targetted individuals that share files for the most part, but if you were to start rating people based on quality, then the person who gets the highest rating becomes the most likely target for the labels and copyright police.
It would definitely be a nice feature for most users, but I personally would not want to get a high rating based on the quality or quantity of my shared files...
I have an identical setup, except it's only 8 MB. I have more "useless" computer equipment than anyone else I know, and I plan on re-using at least half of it. I'm seeing this as yet another way for the government to take away our money. Environmental concerns are probably the very last actual reason for this new proposal.
The file was renamed (there's a.0 at the end of it now) and no one has download permissions anymore. Give it a while then we can all try again. I doubt anyone had time to download it. I only got 11 MB before that happened to me.
As far as the download goes, I'm on a 384K Frame Relay and I'm only getting a 6.8 k/s download right now... Not much better than dial-up. I probably shouldn't have started downloading as soon as the page hit/.
Might want to check out ThinVNC as well. I currently use Citrix Winframe/Metaframe at this office. We support about 150 users, most of them are located at remote offices using dial-up connections. The bandwith needed for ICA clients is about 20kbps. A 56k connection is more than enough, provided you don't have too many hops between your servers and the dial-up ISP.
We primarily run a DOS app over this connection. I am considering trying out a ThinVNC solution... I am thinking that we could run the DOS app in a DOS emulation (DOSEMU, Wine, etc) on a Linux server. The sites would connect via ThinVNC then run the DOS app. I have concerns about the printing rammifications and drive mappings across VNC to the clients (we constantly need to print from this app, and occassionally need to copy files to their local PC which is a Win9x/2000 machine). I haven't looked into it enough, though.
If anyone has ideas about this, please respond. Thanks!
Our company's virus scanner doesn't work with XP. We use Trend Corporate Officescan which automatically updates all clients every day, and has a really nice web interface. However, they are just now BETA testing the XP version. I couldn't even get the machine to boot after installing the program. It froze on a black screen during the first restart. The only way to recover was to boot to Safe Mode, then uninstall the program, and I had to call tech support to help me fix some key registry entries. Overall, XP seems like a nice system, but I'd advise anyone that makes purchasing decisions for larger companies to hold off until all the apps are updated for it.
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Stealing from a comment posted 5 minutes earlier simply for the purposes of karma whoring and trolling... How original!
That was my thought on this process. Design it so that the algorithm is based off of a "seed" of sorts which generates the sequences and gets changed periodically. Let all of the clients know when the seed changes, and their software will generate the correct sequence. Basically, it's another password to remember and to change.
But, you could also design the software to generate the sequence based on a particular time (even down to the second if you wanted), and have the client and the server synchronized to the same time server.
Combine all of this with the "secure" programs out there right now, and you have a much harder system to crack. Granted, all someone needs is a copy of the software, the seed being used at the time, and access to the same time server, but that's still a decent amount of extra time they'll have to devote to cracking the system.
I don't know much about airwave communications, but this sounds similar to frequency hopping.
We ended up moving all of our scattered Access Databases to MySQL about a year ago, and have never looked back. We still use Access as a front-end to get at the data, and everything has worked beautifully. Using Access gives us a consistent UI for each app, and it's quick and relatively painless to add new apps or features. And, using MySQL for the data is orders of magnitude faster that Access MDB files.
As far as 'enterprise level' features, MySQL is still missing Stored Procedures, easy 2-way replication, and clustering (there are many projects out there that add these features, but none of them are included in the main branch AFAIK). They keep getting closer with each release, though.
No, it's not ready to take on Oracle yet, but for mid-size shops (we regularly have 30-50 concurrent users all day from various remote locations), it's a great product. Slashdot runs it, and they seem to be able to handle quite a bit of a load. It's proven itself to me, but then again, I've never played with Oracle or DB2. It has a very active developer base, so things are changing all the time.
PostgreSQL has more enterprise features, but it's not used as much as MySQL. It seems pretty solid, though. We toyed with a bit, but my boss decided to go with MySQL mainly because he had heard of it before.
So, the 41 million doesn't really tell a whole lot in terms of how many numbers there are in the country versus the number of people. I'm sure there's a way to find out, though. Anyone have any ideas?
Here is HouseCall - Their online free virus scanner.
Anyone without an antivirus program seriously needs to get one:
McAfee
Symantec (Norton)
Trend Micro
Just to name a few...
I'm sure this document is very enlightening to those with the property background knowledge, but any paper with the phrase "according to conventional four-dimenional quantum field theory" (page 3) is a bit beyond my comprehension, and I'm not sure if it can be called easily digestable...
Every email worm out there is designed to pull from it's address book
OE doesn't have an object model to be able to programatically retrieve the address book. Outlook definetly does, but OE does not. The most effective worms/viruses for OE were ones that were able to attach themselves to all outgoing messages undetected. None of them (to my knowledge, correct me if I'm wrong) were able to email everyone in your address book.
I've never quite understod why we can send billions of dollars overseas as foreign aid, yet still have people at home who are homeless, illiterate, and without healthcare
As for homelessness: Every major city that I have been to (most of them) have these things called "homeless shelters". They provide food and shelter to basicallly anyone who walks in the door. They also have programs set up so that they can help people get back on their feet after a setback. The only way that they will deny entry to a person is if that person has an obvious drug or alcohol problem. Most of the "homeless" people you see on the street collecting money are doing that because they have an addiction and can't get into the shelter because of it (which is also a problem, but there are free clinics that can help with that, too). Granted, most of these programs aren't federal, but I feel like it's better dealt with at the local level anyway. Some of them receive federal grants to operate, though.
Illiteracy: Maybe you haven't heard of this concept called the "public school system". It's a system designed to educate people in this country from ages 4 or 5 through roughly 18. During this time, they teach literacy, math, history, and a variety of other subjects. Or, were you talking about people that either dropped out of the public school system or immigrated after they already turned 18? Well, for a very reasonable fee (and sometimes free under the right circumstances), you can take courses to get your G.E.D., which is basically equivalent to a high school diploma. These courses start as basic as you need them to, and then proceed from there. Granted, there are segments of the population that don't force their children to go to school and make them work in family businesses, etc. For the most part, those people are breaking the law.
Healthcare: This is a major problem facing our country today. Insurance companies have steadily driven up the cost of healthcare to unreasonable levels. Enough people that have health insurance are using it improperly, and are going to get X-Rays every time they have a headache. This drives up the insurance prices. Shady lawyers sue the insurance companies and the doctors because they both typically have deep pockets. Just fighting all of the legal battles costs a ton of money, so this gets passed back along to the consumer or the insurance company again. All of this is currently being worked on in various levels of the government, but no one has come up with a one-size-fits-all solution to it, yet. Many other countries have socialized healthcare, but that brings along other problems, too, that I'll refrain from getting into.
That said, there are plenty of free clinics, but there is a price to pay for most of those, too: time. You'll probably waste a lot of time waiting to get in, but isn't that worth it? There are also many health insurance plans offered at the local level (City Hall, local colleges, church organizations) which are very affordable (and again, free sometimes). It's just a matter of knowing about these programs that is the main problem. A lot of people don't know about them, don't go looking for them, or just want to complain about their lack of options.
Another, slightly off-topic example: low-cost housing. I work for a property management company, and we have to deal with about 5 different government agencies that provide subsidized housing. All of them have different regulations, and all of them need to do their own inspections. We have HUD, Rural Development, MAAM, MSHDA (state organization), and different ones for larger cities. They each require seperate reports for each property, and all of them provide the same basic services to the people in need. Why couldn't they be converged into a single entity (at least at the federal level) with a single set of guidelines and one reporting format?
We don't need more social programs, we need to refine and consolidate those that we already have.
I guess it was more the PoliSci girls that had no idea what they were going to do after getting their degree that scared me. The ones that go on to law school typically have some kind of plan for their life, and aren't just floating by.
I agree, though, grouping everyone by major isn't the best system. "Everyone who over-generalizes sucks" fits the bill, I guess. I just knew 4 PoliSci girls that had no idea what life was all about. They were really wierd... So, I grouped 'em all together.
I may be one of the only guys in the world lucky enough to hook up with "the girl" in a CSE course. Turns out, she was kind of a freak, too, which made life pretty interesting for a while. But, that's exactly how I managed to pull it off. Asking if she wanted to "study for an exam" over the weekend, and then after the 2nd study session, we ended up at the bar. Make sure you save enough money for a social life, and don't spend it all on gadgets. Having a decent GPA is a good thing and all, but if you leave college without any social skills, you're doomed to a life of misery or failure or both. The girl ended up being a blast to hang out with one on one, but couldn't stop talking when we got around larger groups of people, and that was really annoying. So, I had to call it off and move on to chicks in other majors (stay away from Political Science... Chemical Engineers are fun, and the Business and Law School group is cool, too).
I don't know if it's a good idea to place bets here... Taco would probably bet under a different name and then post just enough to win the bet.
But, I'll bite anyway: I'm rooting for 7 posts.
Although NASA's discovery means the universe will go on forever, the same is not true for human life. As the universe expands, all the energy needed to keep the stars and galaxies alight will be used up. What will remain is a universe full of black holes, which after trillions of years will explode to leave nothing but dark energy
Here's what's next!!!
:-)
Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, biblical?
Ray: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor... real Wrath-of-God-type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies.
Venkman: Rivers and seas boiling!
Egon: 40 years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanos.
Winston:The dead rising from the grave!
Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together... mass hysteria!
Courtesy of http://www.moviesounds.com/gbusters.html
It's nice when a company does something good for its customers instead of trying to screw them over.
As long as they aren't pop up ads...
If they do start using popup ads, all you need to do is hack into the New York subway system and install Mozilla.
;)
GNU/EULA, also abbreviated GNULA.
GNULA: Recursive for: GNULA's Not a User License Agreement?
There is a slight incompatibility between Excel documents that contain the "VLOOKUP()", "HLOOKUP()", or "LOOKUP()" commands. OpenOffice implements them exactly as Microsoft has described them, however, Excel has a slightly different implementation than described.
If you're looking for a number in OO, and one of the cells in your range contains text, the LOOKUP command will return an error. But, Excel just ignores it. Since my company has a number of older Excel documents that use that feature, we'd have to change them all in order for OO to work for us. Until then, we have to stick with MS.
I am working on changing those processes and spreadsheets, but it'll take a while before we're able to switch. I really do like OO, but until they either change the implementation (I submitted a bug, but the closed it as "RESOLVED"), or I change the files, we can't use it company-wide.
"Only download from high moderation point users first"
While that might work for a while, I see it is a bigger liability in the long run... The labels haven't targetted individuals that share files for the most part, but if you were to start rating people based on quality, then the person who gets the highest rating becomes the most likely target for the labels and copyright police.
It would definitely be a nice feature for most users, but I personally would not want to get a high rating based on the quality or quantity of my shared files...
Oops, I meant 4 MB.
I have an identical setup, except it's only 8 MB. I have more "useless" computer equipment than anyone else I know, and I plan on re-using at least half of it. I'm seeing this as yet another way for the government to take away our money. Environmental concerns are probably the very last actual reason for this new proposal.
The file was renamed (there's a .0 at the end of it now) and no one has download permissions anymore. Give it a while then we can all try again. I doubt anyone had time to download it. I only got 11 MB before that happened to me.
Ok, a couple of questions for you, then... Do SSH terminals support ANSI graphics?
Also, can I get drive/printer mappings over an Internet dial-up connection via Samba (or anything else for that matter)?
As far as the download goes, I'm on a 384K Frame Relay and I'm only getting a 6.8 k/s download right now... Not much better than dial-up. I probably shouldn't have started downloading as soon as the page hit /.
:)
Might want to check out ThinVNC as well. I currently use Citrix Winframe/Metaframe at this office. We support about 150 users, most of them are located at remote offices using dial-up connections. The bandwith needed for ICA clients is about 20kbps. A 56k connection is more than enough, provided you don't have too many hops between your servers and the dial-up ISP.
We primarily run a DOS app over this connection. I am considering trying out a ThinVNC solution... I am thinking that we could run the DOS app in a DOS emulation (DOSEMU, Wine, etc) on a Linux server. The sites would connect via ThinVNC then run the DOS app. I have concerns about the printing rammifications and drive mappings across VNC to the clients (we constantly need to print from this app, and occassionally need to copy files to their local PC which is a Win9x/2000 machine). I haven't looked into it enough, though.
If anyone has ideas about this, please respond. Thanks!
Our company's virus scanner doesn't work with XP. We use Trend Corporate Officescan which automatically updates all clients every day, and has a really nice web interface. However, they are just now BETA testing the XP version. I couldn't even get the machine to boot after installing the program. It froze on a black screen during the first restart. The only way to recover was to boot to Safe Mode, then uninstall the program, and I had to call tech support to help me fix some key registry entries. Overall, XP seems like a nice system, but I'd advise anyone that makes purchasing decisions for larger companies to hold off until all the apps are updated for it.