Cutting corners in what way? As far as the design of ISS goes, most of these designs are old news at this point. Most of the hardware for the ISS is currently just sitting in storage waiting to be loaded and lifted into space. Considering that they've got an identical joint on another set of panels that's showing no damage, it's probably not the case of it being a mechanical design defect. I think it's more likely that the joint got contaminated either while being installed or while it was being loaded.
Find out whose fucking retarded idea this was and fire their ass. Then find all the people who went along with this plan and fire their asses as well.
When our country is dealing with a emergency, the last thing we need is people making themselves busy faking news. What these baffoons should have been doing is their job... i.e. cooridinating a cohesive response to the fire situation in California.
my @silly_list = get_dictionary('/usr/share/dict/linux.words');
Make sure to alter the line "my $dom_length = int(rand($count)/4)+2;" and make it "my $dom_length = 5"; or something suitable, otherwise you'll end up with domain names that are impossibly long.
The get_dictionary function looks like this:
sub get_dictionary {
my ($dist_file) = @_;
open(FP,"< $dist_file") or die "Unable to open file $dist_file ($!)\n";
print "Reading in Dictonary...";
my @list = <FP>;
chomp(@list);
print "done!\n";
return @list; }
Here you go... This program when run will create X number of random domains and then do DNS queries against them. Thus poisoning the hit database. Note: I'm sure any real programmer will look at this code and cringe...
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict; use Net::DNS::Packet; use Net::DNS::RR;
my @silly_list = ('sex','linux','monkey','pants','lucky','duck','cow',
'chicken','clown','w2k3','fart','junk','monk','towel','hyper','viper',
'amp','station','depot','diaper','super','leet','wicked','help','soft',
'ware','micro','dyne');
my @tld_domains = ('.com','.edu','.org','.net');
my $domain; my $num = $ARGV[0]; # Number of junk domains to create. my $res = Net::DNS::Resolver->new; for(;$num >= 0; $num--) {
$domain = return_domain(@silly_list);
$domain.= $tld_domains[rand(4)];
print "Checking: $domain\n";
lookup_domain($res,$domain); }
sub return_domain {
my (@list) = @_;
my $count = @list;
my $dom_length = int(rand($count)/4)+2;
my $domain_name;
for(;$dom_length > 0;$dom_length--)
{
$domain_name.= $list[rand($count)];
} # print "domain = $domain_name\n";
return 'www.' . $domain_name; }
sub lookup_domain {
my ($resolver,$domain_name) = @_;
my $packet = $resolver->send($domain_name);
my @answer = $packet->answer;
my $ans_count = @answer;
my $item;
if($ans_count > 0)
{
foreach $item (@answer)
{
print $item->name . " " . $item->address . "\n";
}
}else{
print "Not a valid site!\n";
} }
Write a perl script that generates fake domains and then does a DNS lookups against them. Thus ensuring that their busy reserving "www.luckylinuxsexmonkeypants.com"
As the parent of a two year old, I can easily recite this entire book off the top of my head without even flinching...
To the topic at hand, my only experiences with Vista have been horrific. This doesn't suprise me one bit. Of the users who I deal with, who have Vista, they universally despise it and deperately would rather be using XP.
At first blush it sounds like a really great idea. Get a couple DSL lines, hook them to AP's, turn off all the security so everybody can access it and your golden.
However, once people realize the current limitations of AP's and how much infrastructure behind the whole thing that needs to be put into place and how much it's going to cost to put that infrastructure in place, they run screaming from the project.
Here's what a town should do...
1. Don't try to put wifi everywhere, instead focus on places like downtown. Realize that your going to have to put *some* infrastructure in, but encourage businesses to install AP's through tax incentives. Come to understand that places that you going to have to put wifi is going to be expensive because the cost of the gear (outdoor AP's are expensive) 2. For everywhere else, subsidize it. Hire someone who knows what their doing and come up with an equipment list that a household would need to become part of the wifi network. (my thinking is that it would be a specific router with a specific config). Then send mail to your local citizens offering a tax credit to anybody who installs an access point. Heck you could even purchase them in some ridiculous quanitity that you could resell to make a profit.
Note, the only thing I haven't addressed in this scenario is technical support and the fact that many telecom companies have issues with them using their service to give service to others. Though I suppose as long as your not making a profit, they really can't say much.
I wonder if you setup a forwarding rule to push traffic from some low port to some high port you could get around this problem? Then just have your non root running chrooted process listening on that high port.
It's 11:34pm where I am so I can't my brain is currently in low power mode... this could be wrong or not make sense...
Yeah, it's not 1997 anymore and practially anybody can install Linux on their chosen piece of hardware. However, there are so many facets to linux and so many people are focused on doing different things with linux, it's great to interact with other Linux enthusiests and broaden your horizons.
One of the things that our LUG has been doing forever is inviting our members to do presentations on things their working on or give talks in areas of their interest/expertise. These presentations have run the gambit from WiFi Security to modeling objects with PovRay to FUSE. We've have distribution comparisions (with proponents for each distribution explaining the pros/cons).
What's cool about a LUG is that your likely to have people who are experts in extremely diverse areas who are all Linux nerds getting together and hanging out.
It's not everyday you get to see a hardware engineer, an English teacher, a chiropractor and a pharamcologist comparing notes on what's the best window manager!
Maybe, if it's 1:1 or 2:1, but not at the current levels. By the time the civil war is done and with all the sectarian violence and displacement, I won't be surprised if Iraq loses 25% of their population or more. Imagine 1 out of every 4 people you know either moved away or killed. That will completely destroy communities/society/social systems, etc. Considering the massive brain drain that's already happened, when the dust does clear, Iraq will be an utterly crippled country. No doctors, no teachers. Anybody with any high tech skills (other than making bombs) will have left.
Another completely different argument is that maybe the idea is when we leave, all of Iraq's neighbors will then be stuck dealing with the aftermath which will be a drain on their resources, etc. Specifically I'm thinking that Iran and Saudia Arabia will have a vested interest in not having Iraq go into the hands of the Turks, but also not become a place where rebels/insurgents and then start staging attacks on their countries.
I've always wondered if this wasn't a covert attrition game being played. We know that there are a whole shitload of people who are itching to take on the Americans.
So, what do we do, we engineer a situation where they get their chance. Only we tip the scales so more of them die then we do. It's that old Patton quote: "No one ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor bastard die for his country."
Think about the brain drain from these other countries that's currently being sent into Iraq. Realize, it isn't 50 year old men out there digging holes and planting IED's, it's 18-30 year olds. Yeah, it's going to cost us thousands of American lives, but it's going to cost these other countries 10's to 100's of thousands of their lives. The last figures I saw was something like more than a million Iraqis have died during this conflict. Hell, we don't need to win the war, we can just lose it really slowly and let these countries throw their child onto the horns of the American bull.
People tend to miss the demoralizing psycological effect of the predator as well. Having predators swarming over an area takes the risk/benefit out of the equasion.
Nobody is going to want to go out and plant roadside bombs if the chances are good that they're going to get spotted by a predator and killed doing it.
Even if they had a SAM that could shoot down something the size of a predator at 60,000 feet it would make them an instant target and chances are good they'll get killed doing it, to accomplish nothing more than destroying a disposable asset.
Depending on where they deploy these and the tactics they use to employ them, I can imagine it'll force the insurgents to further refine their tactics.
However, when I think about how this will change their tactis, my only thought is that they'd instead go after softer targets, they'll instead draw American forces into situations where it'll be impossible to use a predator (such as a gun fight in a market). Situations where they can cause large numbers of civilian casaulties and blame the Americans.
The solution to this problem is to change the nature of the game.
As the owner of an original PSP, here's my take on what I've heard.
1. TV-OUT... Horray. I agree with the parent.. this is something that should have been on the original PSP. My hope was at time went on they'd add it as a feature in a firmware upgrade and then sell a do-hickey that would connect to the USB. The lack of a TV-OUT was also my reason for shrugging at UMD movies... for the same reason. I'd rather watch them on a big screen.
2. Games... This makes me very happy. With that said, people are always pissing and moaning about the lack of games for the PSP, which I think is a bit unfounded. Everytime I get near a GameStop/EB/Target I see at least 10 games that I go "oh... when I'm doing playing this game, I'll buy that one".
3. 30% lighter... It was never heavy anyway... plus now all the accessories (like PSP cases) aren't going to fit it.
4. Faster Game loading... Horray! If the PSP has a short coming, it's that. Those of you out there playing "Untold Legends: Brotherhood of th e Blade" know what I'm talking about!
5. Longer battery life... Also a Horray, but not that much. I'm still using the original battery and I'm getting 4+ hours of game play per charge. However I do follow good battery use practices...
Now... [steps onto soapbox] Sony needs to release an SDK that's affordable to the homebrew people (like me) and create a place were people can legitimately upload their creations.
Ground isn't being broken here. Plenty of fan flicks have been created and distributed for everybody to see and the net benefit is more interest in the product...
The fucktards are short sighted idiots who will undoubtly realize their stupidity when their fan/customer base up and leaves...
You're only as good as your last [insert thing of interest].
One of my co-workers is Indian and he consently bitches about the lack of native language support in software. I'd say start by seeing if your favorite piece of software has support for your local native language. If not, go about modifying the software to properly use language tags so it does.
Actually the way there doing it is to mount the ISO image as a loopback device. Creating a mount point and mapping the physical DVD that way would be TERRIBLE.
However since your just going to be going through an additional FS layer, it's probably not worth the time to copy the RPMS off the DVD. The slowdown will be minimal.
Now... If your planning on installing 50 machines concurrently... Ignore everything I said and copy the RPM's to the disk.
Ah, you've hit the nail on the head! Jack's in league with the aliens!!! They sit up there in their cloaked ships and see Halo 3 is a "Earth defense simulator".
Obviously they've been drinking the msnbc/fox coolaid and were like "We'll get Jack, that'll fix them".
Needless to say, if the best they can do for lawyers is a jackass like Jack Thompson, when they do start their attack, we'll slaughter by the dozens and stack their bodies like cord wood.
Microsoft isn't going to sue because it doesn't have a leg to stand on. They just saw what IBM did to SCO and they'd rather not get that beating.
The long and the short of it is that Microsoft has realized they can't compete in the market based on value alone. They initally laughed off Linux but now have come to realize it was a critical miscalcuation. Their first option was to dazzle the world with um, Vista... yeah we've seen how that lead lined life preserver worked. So they've opted for tactic number two which is to claim that their competitors stole all their technology...
If Linux stole all this nifty technology from Microsoft... Why is Vista so shitty???
The only thing I recieve at this point in WoW is guild chat, pm's and party messages. Everything else is ignored. Our guild is big enough (Dark Hand of Chaos on Gilneas) that anything you'd want to sell has a taker in the guild. Same with speciality services such as lock picking... there's always somebody in the guild that can do some obscure thing.
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Your buddy just needs to figure out how to compress a stream of matter and send it through the little wormholes in the quantum foam!
Cutting corners in what way? As far as the design of ISS goes, most of these designs are old news at this point. Most of the hardware for the ISS is currently just sitting in storage waiting to be loaded and lifted into space. Considering that they've got an identical joint on another set of panels that's showing no damage, it's probably not the case of it being a mechanical design defect. I think it's more likely that the joint got contaminated either while being installed or while it was being loaded.
Find out whose fucking retarded idea this was and fire their ass. Then find all the people who went along with this plan and fire their asses as well.
When our country is dealing with a emergency, the last thing we need is people making themselves busy faking news. What these baffoons should have been doing is their job... i.e. cooridinating a cohesive response to the fire situation in California.
I just realized I don't have a close(FP) at the end of that function... doh!
I fixed my glitch...
Replace the static @silly_list with this...
my @silly_list = get_dictionary('/usr/share/dict/linux.words');
Make sure to alter the line "my $dom_length = int(rand($count)/4)+2;" and make it "my $dom_length = 5"; or something suitable, otherwise you'll end up with domain names that are impossibly long.
The get_dictionary function looks like this:
sub get_dictionary
{
my ($dist_file) = @_;
open(FP,"< $dist_file") or die "Unable to open file $dist_file ($!)\n";
print "Reading in Dictonary...";
my @list = <FP>;
chomp(@list);
print "done!\n";
return @list;
}
Here you go... This program when run will create X number of random domains and then do DNS queries against them. Thus poisoning the hit database. Note: I'm sure any real programmer will look at this code and cringe...
.= $tld_domains[rand(4)];
.= $list[rand($count)];
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Net::DNS::Packet;
use Net::DNS::RR;
my @silly_list = ('sex','linux','monkey','pants','lucky','duck','cow',
'chicken','clown','w2k3','fart','junk','monk','towel','hyper','viper',
'amp','station','depot','diaper','super','leet','wicked','help','soft',
'ware','micro','dyne');
my @tld_domains = ('.com','.edu','.org','.net');
my $domain;
my $num = $ARGV[0]; # Number of junk domains to create.
my $res = Net::DNS::Resolver->new;
for(;$num >= 0; $num--)
{
$domain = return_domain(@silly_list);
$domain
print "Checking: $domain\n";
lookup_domain($res,$domain);
}
sub return_domain
{
my (@list) = @_;
my $count = @list;
my $dom_length = int(rand($count)/4)+2;
my $domain_name;
for(;$dom_length > 0;$dom_length--)
{
$domain_name
}
# print "domain = $domain_name\n";
return 'www.' . $domain_name;
}
sub lookup_domain
{
my ($resolver,$domain_name) = @_;
my $packet = $resolver->send($domain_name);
my @answer = $packet->answer;
my $ans_count = @answer;
my $item;
if($ans_count > 0)
{
foreach $item (@answer)
{
print $item->name . " " . $item->address . "\n";
}
}else{
print "Not a valid site!\n";
}
}
Correction... we have TWO working rovers on Mars!
Now... if we only had a base with people in it!!!
This is how you fix this problem...
Write a perl script that generates fake domains and then does a DNS lookups against them. Thus ensuring that their busy reserving "www.luckylinuxsexmonkeypants.com"
As the parent of a two year old, I can easily recite this entire book off the top of my head without even flinching...
To the topic at hand, my only experiences with Vista have been horrific. This doesn't suprise me one bit. Of the users who I deal with, who have Vista, they universally despise it and deperately would rather be using XP.
At first blush it sounds like a really great idea. Get a couple DSL lines, hook them to AP's, turn off all the security so everybody can access it and your golden.
However, once people realize the current limitations of AP's and how much infrastructure behind the whole thing that needs to be put into place and how much it's going to cost to put that infrastructure in place, they run screaming from the project.
Here's what a town should do...
1. Don't try to put wifi everywhere, instead focus on places like downtown. Realize that your going to have to put *some* infrastructure in, but encourage businesses to install AP's through tax incentives. Come to understand that places that you going to have to put wifi is going to be expensive because the cost of the gear (outdoor AP's are expensive)
2. For everywhere else, subsidize it. Hire someone who knows what their doing and come up with an equipment list that a household would need to become part of the wifi network. (my thinking is that it would be a specific router with a specific config). Then send mail to your local citizens offering a tax credit to anybody who installs an access point. Heck you could even purchase them in some ridiculous quanitity that you could resell to make a profit.
Note, the only thing I haven't addressed in this scenario is technical support and the fact that many telecom companies have issues with them using their service to give service to others. Though I suppose as long as your not making a profit, they really can't say much.
Just my idea.
I wonder if you setup a forwarding rule to push traffic from some low port to some high port you could get around this problem? Then just have your non root running chrooted process listening on that high port.
It's 11:34pm where I am so I can't my brain is currently in low power mode... this could be wrong or not make sense...
I think their should be the equivalent of a "Godwin's Law" for gay porn or Jack Thompson.
Yeah, it's not 1997 anymore and practially anybody can install Linux on their chosen piece of hardware. However, there are so many facets to linux and so many people are focused on doing different things with linux, it's great to interact with other Linux enthusiests and broaden your horizons.
One of the things that our LUG has been doing forever is inviting our members to do presentations on things their working on or give talks in areas of their interest/expertise. These presentations have run the gambit from WiFi Security to modeling objects with PovRay to FUSE. We've have distribution comparisions (with proponents for each distribution explaining the pros/cons).
What's cool about a LUG is that your likely to have people who are experts in extremely diverse areas who are all Linux nerds getting together and hanging out.
It's not everyday you get to see a hardware engineer, an English teacher, a chiropractor and a pharamcologist comparing notes on what's the best window manager!
Maybe, if it's 1:1 or 2:1, but not at the current levels. By the time the civil war is done and with all the sectarian violence and displacement, I won't be surprised if Iraq loses 25% of their population or more. Imagine 1 out of every 4 people you know either moved away or killed. That will completely destroy communities/society/social systems, etc. Considering the massive brain drain that's already happened, when the dust does clear, Iraq will be an utterly crippled country. No doctors, no teachers. Anybody with any high tech skills (other than making bombs) will have left.
Another completely different argument is that maybe the idea is when we leave, all of Iraq's neighbors will then be stuck dealing with the aftermath which will be a drain on their resources, etc. Specifically I'm thinking that Iran and Saudia Arabia will have a vested interest in not having Iraq go into the hands of the Turks, but also not become a place where rebels/insurgents and then start staging attacks on their countries.
I've always wondered if this wasn't a covert attrition game being played. We know that there are a whole shitload of people who are itching to take on the Americans.
So, what do we do, we engineer a situation where they get their chance. Only we tip the scales so more of them die then we do. It's that old Patton quote: "No one ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor bastard die for his country."
Think about the brain drain from these other countries that's currently being sent into Iraq. Realize, it isn't 50 year old men out there digging holes and planting IED's, it's 18-30 year olds. Yeah, it's going to cost us thousands of American lives, but it's going to cost these other countries 10's to 100's of thousands of their lives. The last figures I saw was something like more than a million Iraqis have died during this conflict. Hell, we don't need to win the war, we can just lose it really slowly and let these countries throw their child onto the horns of the American bull.
People tend to miss the demoralizing psycological effect of the predator as well. Having predators swarming over an area takes the risk/benefit out of the equasion.
Nobody is going to want to go out and plant roadside bombs if the chances are good that they're going to get spotted by a predator and killed doing it.
Even if they had a SAM that could shoot down something the size of a predator at 60,000 feet it would make them an instant target and chances are good they'll get killed doing it, to accomplish nothing more than destroying a disposable asset.
Depending on where they deploy these and the tactics they use to employ them, I can imagine it'll force the insurgents to further refine their tactics.
However, when I think about how this will change their tactis, my only thought is that they'd instead go after softer targets, they'll instead draw American forces into situations where it'll be impossible to use a predator (such as a gun fight in a market). Situations where they can cause large numbers of civilian casaulties and blame the Americans.
The solution to this problem is to change the nature of the game.
As the owner of an original PSP, here's my take on what I've heard.
1. TV-OUT... Horray. I agree with the parent.. this is something that should have been on the original PSP. My hope was at time went on they'd add it as a feature in a firmware upgrade and then sell a do-hickey that would connect to the USB. The lack of a TV-OUT was also my reason for shrugging at UMD movies... for the same reason. I'd rather watch them on a big screen.
2. Games... This makes me very happy. With that said, people are always pissing and moaning about the lack of games for the PSP, which I think is a bit unfounded. Everytime I get near a GameStop/EB/Target I see at least 10 games that I go "oh... when I'm doing playing this game, I'll buy that one".
3. 30% lighter... It was never heavy anyway... plus now all the accessories (like PSP cases) aren't going to fit it.
4. Faster Game loading... Horray! If the PSP has a short coming, it's that. Those of you out there playing "Untold Legends: Brotherhood of th e Blade" know what I'm talking about!
5. Longer battery life... Also a Horray, but not that much. I'm still using the original battery and I'm getting 4+ hours of game play per charge. However I do follow good battery use practices...
Now... [steps onto soapbox] Sony needs to release an SDK that's affordable to the homebrew people (like me) and create a place were people can legitimately upload their creations.
Ground isn't being broken here. Plenty of fan flicks have been created and distributed for everybody to see and the net benefit is more interest in the product...
The fucktards are short sighted idiots who will undoubtly realize their stupidity when their fan/customer base up and leaves...
You're only as good as your last [insert thing of interest].
One of my co-workers is Indian and he consently bitches about the lack of native language support in software. I'd say start by seeing if your favorite piece of software has support for your local native language. If not, go about modifying the software to properly use language tags so it does.
Personally I would have gone with the "What the Fuck?!?"
Then again, that's just me!
Actually the way there doing it is to mount the ISO image as a loopback device. Creating a mount point and mapping the physical DVD that way would be TERRIBLE.
However since your just going to be going through an additional FS layer, it's probably not worth the time to copy the RPMS off the DVD. The slowdown will be minimal.
Now... If your planning on installing 50 machines concurrently... Ignore everything I said and copy the RPM's to the disk.
md5sum Hansons_mmbob.mp3 76c6dafd6569222312357fdfdbace3e5
md5sum kernel32.dll 76c6dafd6569222312357fdfdbace3e5
Now, that explains a few of windows short comings right there...
Ah, you've hit the nail on the head! Jack's in league with the aliens!!! They sit up there in their cloaked ships and see Halo 3 is a "Earth defense simulator".
Obviously they've been drinking the msnbc/fox coolaid and were like "We'll get Jack, that'll fix them".
Needless to say, if the best they can do for lawyers is a jackass like Jack Thompson, when they do start their attack, we'll slaughter by the dozens and stack their bodies like cord wood.
Bring it; alien bitches!
Microsoft isn't going to sue because it doesn't have a leg to stand on. They just saw what IBM did to SCO and they'd rather not get that beating.
The long and the short of it is that Microsoft has realized they can't compete in the market based on value alone. They initally laughed off Linux but now have come to realize it was a critical miscalcuation. Their first option was to dazzle the world with um, Vista... yeah we've seen how that lead lined life preserver worked. So they've opted for tactic number two which is to claim that their competitors stole all their technology...
If Linux stole all this nifty technology from Microsoft... Why is Vista so shitty???
The only thing I recieve at this point in WoW is guild chat, pm's and party messages. Everything else is ignored. Our guild is big enough (Dark Hand of Chaos on Gilneas) that anything you'd want to sell has a taker in the guild. Same with speciality services such as lock picking... there's always somebody in the guild that can do some obscure thing.
Yes, I know my aruguments are guild centric...