Anyhow I suggest you use a reversible method for correcting your vision (eg glasses/contacts)
Contacts can also damage your eyeballs if you are not careful (about leaving them in too long). A friend of mine is a surgeon who does, among other thing, organ transplants (legit;). She says that they don't take corneas from deceased people who have worn contacts most of their lives because the contacts can have a significant detrimental effect upon the cornea. Then again, that might have to do with older contact lenses when the technology wasn't as good.
The five year plan lets you spread out your classes a little. You'll have the time to dig deeper and learn more about the subjects that interest you. For 'hard' majors, having the extra time is important. Instead of pounding out A- caliber filler to get through the class, you can learn the material. Of course if learning isn't your gig, you can party a lot more too.
Great advice. I'm several years into an undergrad electrical engineering degree myself. Just about everyone I know who's still sane/normal is looking at a 5+ year degree. Because why not? These might very well be the best times of your life. Enjoy them! Party it up! Meet people.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you should be a slacker (I've got top marks myself). A slow but steady pace will help you absorb the information better and really get into your subject area. If you can afford it, or have an enlightened government that helps keep university affordable, take advantage of your situation..
Do you hear old people complaining about all the years they wasted in university?
Agreed, the Real products (Real One or whatever?) are absolutely terrible. I love listening to the BBC from here in Canada, so I installed the Real product but was too disgusted with it to keep it. I was hoping they'd bring back OGG at the BBC and now they're making it happen. Hooray for the BBC!
And if you still don't think ogg is that amazing, have you heard what it sounds like at low bitrates? Check out these 32 kbps mono ogg samples. Try to get that quality out of mp3, real, wma, or whatever! Ogg rocks at low bitrates... actually, it's fine at any bitrate. I only rip CDs to ogg these days.
Gnutella (and possibly other P2P networks) can use IRC as a meeting point, to swap IP addresses on a very large scale. I wonder how many of those IRC connections were related to gnutella?
I remember reading about something like this earlier, where they had a circuit that modified itself (it was implemented on an FPGA) and it was supposed to figure out how to solve a mathematical problem. After it randomly came up with a "working circuit", the engineers couldn't debug it -- until they figured out the FPGA circuit as implemented was making use of stray RF signals to help solve the "problem".
Just goes to show that there are tons of ways to solve problems. Perhaps we don't solve things so efficiently after all when left to our own methods?
The trick to getting other people to do what you want is to be able to see things from their viewpoint.
You don't want to be overworked, or lose your weekends. A reasonable request in 2002. Now what does management want? They want more sales, more profits. So your goal should be to show them (in a very simple way, because they are simple people) that long workdays results in reduced sales.
If you can drive this point home to them, they will take your side because they don't want to lose money. Perhaps make a pretty presentation with Power Point (management people like Power Point). Something like:
Long programming hours result in code with more bugs
Customers respond to buggy products by considering alternate vendors/distributors
Severe bugs or oversights can even result in legal action, severely damaging a company
Management is ultimately responsible for the product. Therefore it's in Management's best interest to not push excessively long hours upon staff.
Subject says it all. In response to the others that say that acoustic tests show that MP3 is better, or that Ogg makes larger files, you MUST realize:
The great majority of listening tests were done before Ogg was "completed". Ogg Vorbis 1.0, which has significant improvements, was released July 19, 2002
It's pointless to say that Ogg files take up more disk space. The size of an encoded file depends entirely on the bitrate used, and there are different measures used between MP3 and Ogg
Software that makes use of ogg is still in its infancy. Any encoding software on the market today with Ogg capability is still using the pre-release library (pre 1.0).
The Ogg Vorbis encoder certainly is not as fast as the mp3 encoders... yet! The damn thing has only been out for less than a month
"Oohh, look at shi-nee met-tal...perty, ain't it". Geez. Materialistic women need to get with reality and stop the pretentious b.s."
I'm still pretty young and I hang around with girls barely out of their teens that go crazy when they see even the crappiest plastic "jewelry" in the malls or at street side vendors. The point is that they're getting trained to adore this stuff. Don't think they're much more mature later on when they're making the same sounds and crooning over AWFULLY EXPENSIVE jewelry. Like many other things, people get trained from a young age to attach value to certain things, even if it's nonsensical. I know my dad didn't buy an expensive diamond ring for my mom, and they've been together for decades. They spend their money on more FUN things, like travel and food!
I see these diamond commercials on television and they almost make me puke. They are directed at women primarily and carry the message: "if your man does not buy you a diamond, then he doesn't really love you." Smart couples -- men and women -- can both see past that, and use their money more wisely. It's not about being "cheap" or "stubborn": it's all about being an individual and making your own choices as to how you're going to express your love and union -- instead of letting media and commercial interest guide your thoughts.
You're right. The solution is not to bike all the time, but it's still a better way to travel than you might think.
-Most places I'd go there are no bike racks, hence nowhere to lock my bike up. People steal bikes that aren't locked up
Be creative! Lamp posts, street signs, door handles, potted plants, trees, and then as a last resort turn the bike upside down, remove both wheels and the seat and chain them all together.
-No bike paths in many areas...and drivers are NOT considerate of people on bikes.
You're right. This is a big problem. American cities are designed exclusively for cars because of the immense power of the auto manufacturers. Cars are #1 in cities. But I pay taxes too. Tax payers have say. If enough of us think our cities should be more bicycle friendly, and we demand change, then change will happen. Special bike lanes, even just a painted corner of the street, are standard in many European cities and in some North American cities like Ottawa (Canada).
-Weather
Can't do anything about the weather:) I don't commute on bicycle at -40 degrees either. But I do use my bicycle between March and October.
A lot of this has to do with recognizing what we want, and voicing our thoughts and desires. Changes don't happen on their own. In my city, a group of cyclists are looking to pressure the municipal government into tax breaks for cyclists and other non-automobile users.
I know this is just one aspect of all the various problems, but you gotta focus on one thing at a time, right?
There are way too many cars on the roads in the USA and Canada. How can people justify driving their car two blocks to get to the local convenience store? Pure lunacy! In Europe (Stockholm, Amsterdam) I even saw elegantly dressed business women riding bikes instead of driving. It's not that crazy!
If the price of gas goes up, people will drive less. If governments tax the shit out of us, we'll drive less. The auto industry is friggin' huge in the states. That's why cities are designed exclusively for cars. But trust me, it's a different world now. Cars are on their way out.
If I can save a hundred bucks a month, and get daily fresh air, and increase my life span by bicycling I see that as the way to go.
Live longer and happier, reduce traffic congestion and help save our nonrenewable resources. Ride a bike.
I'm impressed that the OpenSSH team gave us advance warning that this bug was going to be announced, and also how to reduce the risk (privilege separation).
From [openssh-unix-announce] Re: Upcoming OpenSSH vulnerability
"There is an upcoming OpenSSH vulnerability that we're working on with ISS. Details will be published early next week.
However, I can say that when OpenSSH's sshd(8) is running with priv seperation, the bug cannot be exploited.
. . .
We've given most vendors since Friday last week until Thursday to get privsep working well for you so that when the announcement comes out
next week their customers are immunized. That is nearly a full week (but they have already wasted a weekend and a Monday). Really I think this is the best we can hope to do (this thing will eventually leak, at which point the details will be published)."
An important skill for anyone who uses UNIX, *BSD, or Linux is being able to build and install software from source. If you haven't done it before, take some time to learn how to do it properly. It's easier than you might think, just download the source and read the README and INSTALL files.
That's kind of why all the source is released -- you really don't have to wait for packages from your vendor. The packages make future uninstall simpler, true, but sometimes you don't have the luxury of time.
I agree. Apache has been solid for a long time, and this incident doesn't faze my confidence in the apache httpd project.
Also, this isn't really as serious a security problem as some people are making it seem. Apache does not run as root by default. Also, on 32 bit *nix'es this bug results in a dead thread, not remote execution of code. Not nearly as dangerous as past rpc/wuftpd/sendmail/bind/most-IIS-bugs;)
(I'm serious about this). Start at the most zoomed in state. Then run auto, and have it go backwards towards the "bigger picture". Now concentrate.
As you see the houses, neighborhood, country and planet imagine us at each others' throats, beating and killing our fellow humans. Imagine the armies and tanks assembling; the rockets launching, the nukes exploding; and all the destructive and malicious things we fire at each other. Think of all the crap that's floating in the air, and the disappearing plants and forests and fish, while the greedy sneers on our faces grow wider as that meaningless electronic blip on the monitor goes up, up, up.
Realize that right now we have the knowledge and the means, more than ever before, to help our fellow humans and to not screw up the spinning chunk of rock and water and the delicately balanced system that sustains all life.
As you see the solar system, the galaxy, and finally nothing but the stars reflect on just how utterly stupid all the ill on earth is.
Just think how dumb we're going to look when the aliens find us later, dead and rotting on our own filthy mess of a planet with our cold apelike hands still wrapped around each others' throats.
I think that the last month has shaped the way that Linux will be seen to the business consumer
Right on Jimmy! Listen, part of my education is in business management and I know how these scoundrels think. Trust me, this is the exact line of thought:
Linux is popular
Popular things make us money
We (I) want to make money
Let's work Linux into our business
There's no reason businesses can't use Linux. But I will still take pride in the fact that the most impressive Linux feats will be pulled off by hackers, as always. The only thing that might piss me off and spur backlash is if my hard work (as a GNU coder) becomes the backbone of another company that can't come up with their own ideas.
The problem with using one battery where another is required is that a memory effect can develop
Has anyone built a home-made UPS yet that relies on a flywheel for temporary power delivery? Not as crazy it sounds! See this article from IEEE Spectrum. Not as crazy as it sounds!
Or is this so complicated that only states and not criminal indivduals can use it?
Plain Old Computers (POCs) were like that for a long time too. No worries, though, we can always work on the cryptographic development up here in Canada. Maybe this quantum stuff can even be incorporated into OpenBSD
Holy shizzle, man, do you really think it matters to everyone whether companies are at "the top"? It's not all about profits:-)
Microsoft puts at least millions of dollars into their [web]servers and the plain reality of it is that their server product is technologically inferior (especially security wise) to another piece of software made by a bunch of hackers.
Don't you ever think to yourself... we do this because we can. As a community of competent tech heads we create software that's powerful and useful for others like us, who know how to use it proper.
As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter whether big business or the public in general catches on. Do we really want this beautiful stuff dragged down into the sewers? I'd say, don't get overzealous about encouraging industry or home users to get into the game.
in other words, pretty much give it away for free.
Strange thing here, this is more or less what I've been doing from my software site and it's been working quite well. I find that there are lots of honest people who will pay for software they find useful!
I like the idea of simple and secure myself. I wrote a small, free win32 mail client called JBMail with the primary purpose being simple, direct access to mail. You can delete mail directly from the POP3 server, and this is undoubtedly the safest way to deal with viruses and large attachments.
No scripting vulnerabilities, no HTML, yet still has address books, spam filtering, etc. How about 140 KB for small;)
Slashdot Mirror
Anyhow I suggest you use a reversible method for correcting your vision (eg glasses/contacts)
Contacts can also damage your eyeballs if you are not careful (about leaving them in too long). A friend of mine is a surgeon who does, among other thing, organ transplants (legit ;). She says that they don't take corneas from deceased people who have worn contacts most of their lives because the contacts can have a significant detrimental effect upon the cornea. Then again, that might have to do with older contact lenses when the technology wasn't as good.
The five year plan lets you spread out your classes a little. You'll have the time to dig deeper and learn more about the subjects that interest you. For 'hard' majors, having the extra time is important. Instead of pounding out A- caliber filler to get through the class, you can learn the material. Of course if learning isn't your gig, you can party a lot more too.
Great advice. I'm several years into an undergrad electrical engineering degree myself. Just about everyone I know who's still sane/normal is looking at a 5+ year degree. Because why not? These might very well be the best times of your life. Enjoy them! Party it up! Meet people.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you should be a slacker (I've got top marks myself). A slow but steady pace will help you absorb the information better and really get into your subject area. If you can afford it, or have an enlightened government that helps keep university affordable, take advantage of your situation..
Do you hear old people complaining about all the years they wasted in university?
Agreed, the Real products (Real One or whatever?) are absolutely terrible. I love listening to the BBC from here in Canada, so I installed the Real product but was too disgusted with it to keep it. I was hoping they'd bring back OGG at the BBC and now they're making it happen. Hooray for the BBC!
And if you still don't think ogg is that amazing, have you heard what it sounds like at low bitrates? Check out these 32 kbps mono ogg samples. Try to get that quality out of mp3, real, wma, or whatever! Ogg rocks at low bitrates... actually, it's fine at any bitrate. I only rip CDs to ogg these days.
Gnutella (and possibly other P2P networks) can use IRC as a meeting point, to swap IP addresses on a very large scale. I wonder how many of those IRC connections were related to gnutella?
If you're a windows user, you can automate this process by using ViewHEAD (freeware). Just enter a URL and view the server response codes.
Holy crap, that's the article! That was before I knew about slashdot, but hey, they get all the gold don't they?
I remember reading about something like this earlier, where they had a circuit that modified itself (it was implemented on an FPGA) and it was supposed to figure out how to solve a mathematical problem. After it randomly came up with a "working circuit", the engineers couldn't debug it -- until they figured out the FPGA circuit as implemented was making use of stray RF signals to help solve the "problem".
Just goes to show that there are tons of ways to solve problems. Perhaps we don't solve things so efficiently after all when left to our own methods?
The trick to getting other people to do what you want is to be able to see things from their viewpoint.
You don't want to be overworked, or lose your weekends. A reasonable request in 2002. Now what does management want? They want more sales, more profits. So your goal should be to show them (in a very simple way, because they are simple people) that long workdays results in reduced sales.
If you can drive this point home to them, they will take your side because they don't want to lose money. Perhaps make a pretty presentation with Power Point (management people like Power Point). Something like:
I'm still pretty young and I hang around with girls barely out of their teens that go crazy when they see even the crappiest plastic "jewelry" in the malls or at street side vendors. The point is that they're getting trained to adore this stuff. Don't think they're much more mature later on when they're making the same sounds and crooning over AWFULLY EXPENSIVE jewelry. Like many other things, people get trained from a young age to attach value to certain things, even if it's nonsensical. I know my dad didn't buy an expensive diamond ring for my mom, and they've been together for decades. They spend their money on more FUN things, like travel and food!
I see these diamond commercials on television and they almost make me puke. They are directed at women primarily and carry the message: "if your man does not buy you a diamond, then he doesn't really love you." Smart couples -- men and women -- can both see past that, and use their money more wisely. It's not about being "cheap" or "stubborn": it's all about being an individual and making your own choices as to how you're going to express your love and union -- instead of letting media and commercial interest guide your thoughts.
You're right. The solution is not to bike all the time, but it's still a better way to travel than you might think.
-Most places I'd go there are no bike racks, hence nowhere to lock my bike up. People steal bikes that aren't locked up
Be creative! Lamp posts, street signs, door handles, potted plants, trees, and then as a last resort turn the bike upside down, remove both wheels and the seat and chain them all together.
-No bike paths in many areas...and drivers are NOT considerate of people on bikes.
You're right. This is a big problem. American cities are designed exclusively for cars because of the immense power of the auto manufacturers. Cars are #1 in cities. But I pay taxes too. Tax payers have say. If enough of us think our cities should be more bicycle friendly, and we demand change, then change will happen. Special bike lanes, even just a painted corner of the street, are standard in many European cities and in some North American cities like Ottawa (Canada).
-Weather
Can't do anything about the weather :) I don't commute on bicycle at -40 degrees either. But I do use my bicycle between March and October.
A lot of this has to do with recognizing what we want, and voicing our thoughts and desires. Changes don't happen on their own. In my city, a group of cyclists are looking to pressure the municipal government into tax breaks for cyclists and other non-automobile users.
I know this is just one aspect of all the various problems, but you gotta focus on one thing at a time, right?
There are way too many cars on the roads in the USA and Canada. How can people justify driving their car two blocks to get to the local convenience store? Pure lunacy! In Europe (Stockholm, Amsterdam) I even saw elegantly dressed business women riding bikes instead of driving. It's not that crazy!
If the price of gas goes up, people will drive less. If governments tax the shit out of us, we'll drive less. The auto industry is friggin' huge in the states. That's why cities are designed exclusively for cars. But trust me, it's a different world now. Cars are on their way out.
If I can save a hundred bucks a month, and get daily fresh air, and increase my life span by bicycling I see that as the way to go.
Live longer and happier, reduce traffic congestion and help save our nonrenewable resources. Ride a bike.
I'm impressed that the OpenSSH team gave us advance warning that this bug was going to be announced, and also how to reduce the risk (privilege separation).
From [openssh-unix-announce] Re: Upcoming OpenSSH vulnerability
I think the article is saying that Linux has not been successful in business. Depending on who you are, you may be sad or happy about that. Simple.
An important skill for anyone who uses UNIX, *BSD, or Linux is being able to build and install software from source. If you haven't done it before, take some time to learn how to do it properly. It's easier than you might think, just download the source and read the README and INSTALL files.
That's kind of why all the source is released -- you really don't have to wait for packages from your vendor. The packages make future uninstall simpler, true, but sometimes you don't have the luxury of time.
I agree. Apache has been solid for a long time, and this incident doesn't faze my confidence in the apache httpd project.
;)
Also, this isn't really as serious a security problem as some people are making it seem. Apache does not run as root by default. Also, on 32 bit *nix'es this bug results in a dead thread, not remote execution of code. Not nearly as dangerous as past rpc/wuftpd/sendmail/bind/most-IIS-bugs
(I'm serious about this). Start at the most zoomed in state. Then run auto, and have it go backwards towards the "bigger picture". Now concentrate.
As you see the houses, neighborhood, country and planet imagine us at each others' throats, beating and killing our fellow humans. Imagine the armies and tanks assembling; the rockets launching, the nukes exploding; and all the destructive and malicious things we fire at each other. Think of all the crap that's floating in the air, and the disappearing plants and forests and fish, while the greedy sneers on our faces grow wider as that meaningless electronic blip on the monitor goes up, up, up.
Realize that right now we have the knowledge and the means, more than ever before, to help our fellow humans and to not screw up the spinning chunk of rock and water and the delicately balanced system that sustains all life.
As you see the solar system, the galaxy, and finally nothing but the stars reflect on just how utterly stupid all the ill on earth is.
Just think how dumb we're going to look when the aliens find us later, dead and rotting on our own filthy mess of a planet with our cold apelike hands still wrapped around each others' throats.
Right on Jimmy! Listen, part of my education is in business management and I know how these scoundrels think. Trust me, this is the exact line of thought:
- Linux is popular
- Popular things make us money
- We (I) want to make money
- Let's work Linux into our business
There's no reason businesses can't use Linux. But I will still take pride in the fact that the most impressive Linux feats will be pulled off by hackers, as always. The only thing that might piss me off and spur backlash is if my hard work (as a GNU coder) becomes the backbone of another company that can't come up with their own ideas.The problem with using one battery where another is required is that a memory effect can develop
Has anyone built a home-made UPS yet that relies on a flywheel for temporary power delivery? Not as crazy it sounds! See this article from IEEE Spectrum. Not as crazy as it sounds!
For anyone interested, this is all you need by way of procmail filter in order to never see any of this crap (kills executable attachments).
s [hf]|c[ho]m|bat|cmd|s hb|hta|exe|lnk|pif|scr|shs)
:0 B
*^Content-Type: (application|audio)
*^.*name=.*\.(vb[esx]|jse?|w
/dev/null
Or is this so complicated that only states and not criminal indivduals can use it?
Plain Old Computers (POCs) were like that for a long time too. No worries, though, we can always work on the cryptographic development up here in Canada. Maybe this quantum stuff can even be incorporated into OpenBSD
Holy shizzle, man, do you really think it matters to everyone whether companies are at "the top"? It's not all about profits :-)
Microsoft puts at least millions of dollars into their [web]servers and the plain reality of it is that their server product is technologically inferior (especially security wise) to another piece of software made by a bunch of hackers.
Don't you ever think to yourself... we do this because we can. As a community of competent tech heads we create software that's powerful and useful for others like us, who know how to use it proper.
As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter whether big business or the public in general catches on. Do we really want this beautiful stuff dragged down into the sewers? I'd say, don't get overzealous about encouraging industry or home users to get into the game.
in other words, pretty much give it away for free.
Strange thing here, this is more or less what I've been doing from my software site and it's been working quite well. I find that there are lots of honest people who will pay for software they find useful!
I like the idea of simple and secure myself. I wrote a small, free win32 mail client called JBMail with the primary purpose being simple, direct access to mail. You can delete mail directly from the POP3 server, and this is undoubtedly the safest way to deal with viruses and large attachments.
;)
No scripting vulnerabilities, no HTML, yet still has address books, spam filtering, etc. How about 140 KB for small