Seriously, our main reason to go with a T1 instead of business DSL is because a T1 comes with a guaranteed QoS. We had our T1 line become slow, and they had a tech come over at 4am on a Sunday to fix it. And he was *really* good. (Sprint, in case you're wondering.)
Of course, you can never completely avoid backhoes.
Serious question, Why do articles linking to OSDN owned sites ie: NewsForge, ITMJ, etc have to always have a remark like: "Slashdot, , are owned by OSDN" ?
It's common practice in journalism, so that the reader is aware of any potential bias caused by the relationship. So, I'm not sure why slashdot does it.
Yes! An anonymous message is the best course of action. If they know who you are, they *will* assume you compromised the system. Then they may take legal action against you. By that point, you're fucked, even if you're in the right. You'll lose a good year or two of your life defending yourself, and paying legal fees.
Communicating through a lawyer is also good, if expensive. If they're involved from the beginning, then it'll be cheaper than getting them involved later on. Try contacting the EFF, they should be able to help. At the very least, you'll get a lawyer's opinion.
Look at it this way. If the chance of failure is a constant 1% each month, the chance that it will fail the first month is 1%. The chance it will fail the second month is 1%. The chance it will fail the first or second month is 1.9%. But the odds are constant each and every month.
That said, hard drive failure doesn't seem constant; it seems to follow a bathtub curve. But that's just my personal experience.
My roommate tried going paperless. The telephone company double charged him, and then refused to refund the money. Instead, they gave him a credit for the amount. Problem being, he needed the money they took for food. (He has a nasty habit of letting his bills pile up until they're $300, $400, or more, and only paying when they threaten his service.)
He also had the gas company claim they didn't receive payment. They did. He showed them proof. Problem resolved, but it was still quite a hassle.
Long story short, he doesn't do any electronic billing of any sort anymore. (BTW, we're on the south side of Chicago, in case anyone cares.)
(I wish I had mod points, you have to settle for a fan.)
I went to a few job interviews set up through them. The last one was for a PHP job, when I was looking for Perl. They gave me virtually no advance notice, and, all in all, a miserable experience.
Why doesn't/. become a NYT partner, and automatically replace all NYT links with partner links. They link to enough articles that I feel like I'm reading the NYT anyway.
[x] No Karma Bonus because I'm restating what I thought was obvious.
That's my point. The numbers seem predictable. I strongly doubt he used a good random number generator. It is possible that he used a good rng, and this happened to be the luck of the draw, but it looks more like keyboard pounding to me.
I strongly suspect your random number generator is flawed. There is way too much repetition. 12 letters come in pairs, out of a total of 16 letters. 8 out of 16 letters are on the top row of a qwerty keyboard. Also, 5 out of 10 unique letters are on the top row of the keyboard. There are a few other patterns, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
Small table, just barely large enough to hold my 17" monitor. So, I grab a plank of wood, put it under the monitor, and put the keyboard on the end that sticks out.
One night, my roommate and I got drunk. I went to bed and passed out. He wanted to use the computer a bit. He ended up passing out on the keyboard, which fell to the floor. The monitor got catapulted, and somehow landed on top of the keyboard. One of the keys popped off, and the plastic broke. Other than that, I'm still typing on it.
Hashes are not reversible. Hashes do NOT produce unique results for each file. Cryptographic hashes produce results that are nearly impossible to duplicate with a different file.
So, creating an MP3 that has the exact same MD5 as the original song would likely take very long. Assuming 1 million MP3s hashed and compared per second, It would take very, very roughly, 1e25 years. That's 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. Probably more. Same numbers apply to jpeg or any other file format.
When I worked retail, my manager told me that people would line their purses with aluminum foil, and stick whatever they were stealing in there, so the anti-theft plastic tags wouldn't work.
We originally used Windows NT 4.0 software mirrors, but that had too many flaws. Mirrors would sometimes break with no notice, and one mirror would end up being months out of date when something did come up. And frequently, we would have flaws with the boot process. Only one of the drives gets a real boot image, or something along those lines. I'm not quite sure what happened, someone else eventually figured it out and fixed it. But we were booting off of floppies for months on a couple servers.
Eventually, we started using Promise and Adaptec RAID controllers. Both have been wonderful. They both gave good warnings when one of the drives failed. We only had one problem in several years. One of the Promise controllers died of heat exhaustion, but that was the time the power supply fan went.
There is a derivative project, Daimonin, which is "prettier", but it's still in beta. Real beta, as in actually working, not sourceforge beta ("w3 wr0t3 s0m3 c0d3z, f1n15h 17 4 u5.")
The Wired story is just about free trials for online games. Nexon's Shattered Galaxy... is now available as a free download from the company's website, and for the first three months, players won't be required to pay... nonpaying players won't have access to certain features,... <plug>If you want a real free online game, try Crossfire</plug>
Slashdot Mirror
Me too.
Seriously, our main reason to go with a T1 instead of business DSL is because a T1 comes with a guaranteed QoS. We had our T1 line become slow, and they had a tech come over at 4am on a Sunday to fix it. And he was *really* good. (Sprint, in case you're wondering.)
Of course, you can never completely avoid backhoes.
It's common practice in journalism, so that the reader is aware of any potential bias caused by the relationship. So, I'm not sure why slashdot does it.
You mean like this?
Have you looked into Boot from LAN? That way you can skip the SSD.
Yes! An anonymous message is the best course of action. If they know who you are, they *will* assume you compromised the system. Then they may take legal action against you. By that point, you're fucked, even if you're in the right. You'll lose a good year or two of your life defending yourself, and paying legal fees.
Communicating through a lawyer is also good, if expensive. If they're involved from the beginning, then it'll be cheaper than getting them involved later on. Try contacting the EFF, they should be able to help. At the very least, you'll get a lawyer's opinion.
From http://www.2000trainers.com/forums/viewthread.php
I've been thinking about getting insurance so that I get the doctor's way out.
"Can you come over and fix my AOL?" "I'm sorry, my malpractice insurance doesn't allow me to."
Look at it this way. If the chance of failure is a constant 1% each month, the chance that it will fail the first month is 1%. The chance it will fail the second month is 1%. The chance it will fail the first or second month is 1.9%. But the odds are constant each and every month.
That said, hard drive failure doesn't seem constant; it seems to follow a bathtub curve. But that's just my personal experience.
[x] No Karma Bonus because this is off-topic
My roommate tried going paperless. The telephone company double charged him, and then refused to refund the money. Instead, they gave him a credit for the amount. Problem being, he needed the money they took for food. (He has a nasty habit of letting his bills pile up until they're $300, $400, or more, and only paying when they threaten his service.)
He also had the gas company claim they didn't receive payment. They did. He showed them proof. Problem resolved, but it was still quite a hassle.
Long story short, he doesn't do any electronic billing of any sort anymore. (BTW, we're on the south side of Chicago, in case anyone cares.)
This is a bit off topic, but I believe that Visa requires their own $50 limit on fraudulent charges, even on debit cards.
Do your own research to make sure, of course.
(I wish I had mod points, you have to settle for a fan.)
I went to a few job interviews set up through them. The last one was for a PHP job, when I was looking for Perl. They gave me virtually no advance notice, and, all in all, a miserable experience.
Try http://crossfire.real-time.com or http://daimonin.sourceforge.net/ They're both open source, and they both run under *nix and win32.
Why doesn't /. become a NYT partner, and automatically replace all NYT links with partner links. They link to enough articles that I feel like I'm reading the NYT anyway.
Their technical support is not *that* good. Actually, it sucks.
[x] No Karma Bonus because I'm restating what I thought was obvious.
That's my point. The numbers seem predictable. I strongly doubt he used a good random number generator. It is possible that he used a good rng, and this happened to be the luck of the draw, but it looks more like keyboard pounding to me.
I strongly suspect your random number generator is flawed. There is way too much repetition. 12 letters come in pairs, out of a total of 16 letters. 8 out of 16 letters are on the top row of a qwerty keyboard. Also, 5 out of 10 unique letters are on the top row of the keyboard. There are a few other patterns, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
Yeah, same to you buddy.
Small table, just barely large enough to hold my 17" monitor. So, I grab a plank of wood, put it under the monitor, and put the keyboard on the end that sticks out.
One night, my roommate and I got drunk. I went to bed and passed out. He wanted to use the computer a bit. He ended up passing out on the keyboard, which fell to the floor. The monitor got catapulted, and somehow landed on top of the keyboard. One of the keys popped off, and the plastic broke. Other than that, I'm still typing on it.
Hashes are not reversible. Hashes do NOT produce unique results for each file. Cryptographic hashes produce results that are nearly impossible to duplicate with a different file.
So, creating an MP3 that has the exact same MD5 as the original song would likely take very long. Assuming 1 million MP3s hashed and compared per second, It would take very, very roughly, 1e25 years. That's 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. Probably more. Same numbers apply to jpeg or any other file format.
Actually, I hear aluminum foil works perfectly.
When I worked retail, my manager told me that people would line their purses with aluminum foil, and stick whatever they were stealing in there, so the anti-theft plastic tags wouldn't work.
We originally used Windows NT 4.0 software mirrors, but that had too many flaws. Mirrors would sometimes break with no notice, and one mirror would end up being months out of date when something did come up. And frequently, we would have flaws with the boot process. Only one of the drives gets a real boot image, or something along those lines. I'm not quite sure what happened, someone else eventually figured it out and fixed it. But we were booting off of floppies for months on a couple servers.
Eventually, we started using Promise and Adaptec RAID controllers. Both have been wonderful. They both gave good warnings when one of the drives failed. We only had one problem in several years. One of the Promise controllers died of heat exhaustion, but that was the time the power supply fan went.
I'll help you port it to Cygwin, once it's finished.
Personally, I like the way Crossfire looks.
There is a derivative project, Daimonin, which is "prettier", but it's still in beta. Real beta, as in actually working, not sourceforge beta ("w3 wr0t3 s0m3 c0d3z, f1n15h 17 4 u5.")
The Wired story is just about free trials for online games. ... is now available as a free download from the company's website, and for the first three months, players won't be required to pay ... nonpaying players won't have access to certain features, ...
Nexon's Shattered Galaxy
<plug>If you want a real free online game, try Crossfire</plug>
Try Crossfire. It's open source too.