Do you have a wireless access point or router?
They are a potential security risk!
Let IT know about it and we'll make it
secure... because if it isn't secure, we could
get hacked, and your ass will be on the line.
We will be searching them out soon.
You have been warned!
People will generally do the right thing.
After a week or so, just walk around with
something running Kismet to alert you to the
obvious, but more importantly simply
LOOK in peoples cubies: If you try to hide
an AP/Router, its coverage will be so pathetic
it's not a credible risk to begin with.
Most all of them will be sitting in plain sight.
For anything you do find, and I suspect you'll
find nothing because people will generally do
the right thing when their job is on the line,
just deal with it: if the AP is locked down
to specific MAC addys and using 128b WEP and
isn't close to public areas, just don't worry
about it. After all, think about all the
LAN jacks that are sitting around unguarded.
We Canadians aren't entirely metric.
Our preferred basic unit is called a
"twofour", which means a case of 24 beers.
So, for example, five trillion positrons per
second would be more correctly counted to as
"208 billion twofours per second", which can
otherwise be summarized as "one helluva frat
party".
Gould hated performing live, and retired to the
studio as soon as he was able. He irritated
many purists because he had no compunction against
splicing together pieces from different takes
to arrive at what he decided was the "best"
performance.
If he were alive today he might very well
choose to play his performances via a
a synclavier.
The "Compose" key lets you do non-ascii
characters by composition. For example, to
enter the german u-umlaut, you'd hit Compose,
u, doublequote. For e-acute, do
Compose, e, singlequote. For an AE ligature,
do Compose, A, E. etc, etc. Very handy.
This still works in X. I usually remap
the otherwise useless "windows" key to
be a compose key (Multi_key, in X parlance)
on my keyboard.
First, you don't need any cygwin stuff to run
python. The normal version is a native win32
executable.
Secondly, you can use
py2exe
to generate a win32 executable out of your python
code, including all required packages. It's
all self-contained. The end user will have
no idea that it's python code.
While timing things so you avoid getting up
to 80 km/hr only in time to have to stop for
a red light makes sense, avoiding hard acceleration
is a bit of an anachronistic piece of advice.
Old cars were carburated. When floored,
lots of extra fuel would get dumped in the
carb, and any that didn't get burned in the
cylinders just got dumped down the tailpipe (possibly igniting,
causing exciting backfire noises).
So in the 70's oil crisis, we were all
told to accelerate gently.
Modern fuel injection has made that a
thing of the past. Engines just do not
get fed more fuel than they can burn, so
it doesn't matter too much how hard you
accelerate.
LF and MF are "Low" and "Medium" which basically
covers everything up to 3 MHz. Everything above
that was HF, or "High". This was fine
around 1930. In fact, HF (3-30MHz) was
considered a useless "junk" band at the time.
But alas, technology led to higher frequencies,
and so "Very High" frequency was born.
Then came "Ultra High". This eventually
still wasn't enough, which is why
"Super High" came about.
Finally we have "Extremely High", which is good
up to 300GHz. There isn't a designator for
stuff beyond that, although terms like
"Ridiculously High" and "F*cking High" get
bandied about.
PS: The same prefixes also work for going low frequency; for example "Extremely Low"
corresponds to
3 to 30 Hz.
Ok, I finally found the icon definitions
here.
They're the ISO/IEC/JTC1 Graphical Symbols for Office Equipment.
In short, a "|" really means "power on", as in physically connected to the mains, while "0" means "power off", as in physically disconnected.
When combined with an unbroken circle, as found on
older monitors, it's a power toggle switch. The button is supposed to be sunken in while in the on position, and popped out while off. But it is
still a physical power switch.
The broken-circle with line, as found on newer
stuff, is "stand-by". Functionally, on my monitor
and where I can find it the key part about its
behaviour is that it only signals the
device to turn off or on; it does not physically
disconnect the power.
Still no sign of that green exploding circle icon
though, but with a bit more training we might all
eventually be able to shut down a Longhorn machine with confidence...
Standard? I do recognize the broken circle with
a line through its circumference as a "power" button, because I have many devices with that.
But note: when a device is off, and I press
the button with that icon, it turns on. Conversely, if the device is already on,
pressing it turns it off.
So, now here I am presented with what seems to
be a power button, on a device that is currently
on. So pressing it should logically turn it OFF.
Except, hey, WTF, why is it yellow? And what's
that weird red thing next to it? I have searched
through my entire house, and I haven't found
a single device with that icon on it.
On the other hand, I've found paired on/off
buttons where a single line (|) means on,
and a circle (o) means off. I've always understood those to be switches dedicated to
on or off, and the combined broken circle one
to be a toggle.
So hell, now I don't know what to do.
Well, that happy looking green thing looks
to me like it must be a lively
"just keep things on please" button,
so I'll consider that a cancel button and
press that.
But the rural spread of our population makes market penetration quite difficult
You can get DSL even in a place
like Moosonee, in northern Ontario. This is
a small town of 2500 souls near James Bay,
surrounded by thousands of km of forest and
shrubs and not much else.
You can also get DSL in places like Magnetawan
(population 1300). Grab an atlas, look up
a few tiny places in rural Ontario, and look
them up yourself at http://canadianisp.com/
for yourself.
Creationists believe in mutations and natural selection just as much as evolutionists do. The difference is that creationists think that mutations and natural selection has a degenerating effect (i.e. removes functionality) whereas evolutionists believe the opposite.
I can't believe you just wrote that.
In the case of the moths, random mutations cause
some to be darker and some to be lighter.
As has always been the case and is still the
case today. That's mutation.
Since darker moths hide better, they got eaten
by birds less, and so they survived and procreated
more than their lighter cousins. And so today,
gypsy moths are darker than they were 100 years
ago. That's natural selection.
So, better camouflage, i.e. more functionality.
This, taken together, equals evolution.
That's the whole theory in a nutshell.
It's staring you right in the face.
The world is crammed full of examples of it.
Whales have vestigals limbs from when they
were land mammals. Us humans still have
vestigal tails, and while in the womb briefly
have primitive gills.
If you want to believe that some god or gods
put all that there as some sort of a joke,
go right ahead, but by Occams Razor, I think
the theory of evolution explains it all
in a much simpler way.
Loads of aspects of evolution have been proven
in the lab. Heck, evolution can even be seen in action; in the 1800s biologists in England noticed
that gypsy moths were becoming darker and darker.
This was due to selective pressure; the increasing pollution made the trees darker, making it better camoflage for the moths to be darker. No, the moths
weren't just dirty.
Now, as for creationism, it's just a theory too.
However, it happens to be a theory with absolutely
zero supporting evidence, and not a single
aspect that can be observed in the field
or replicated in the lab.
It's just a complete blind faith thing. It
has exactly as much credibility as the theory
that we're all living in "The Matrix". Or,
as Descartes postulated long before that,
that conceivable some entity is just making
it appear to you that a world exists and works
the way it does.
So, if you're going to reject blind faith,
the theory of evolution is pretty well the
only game left in town.
Writing Googlebot-friendly pages, minimizing Flash use, using proper titles and headers, etc are legitimate techniques for increasing your Google juice
That's the job description of a "web site author".
So what then does an "SEO" do? As far as I
can tell, exactly what this/. article is
about. Namely, spamming.
SE"O"s do NOT optimize search engines; they
simply attempt to make their paying clients
appear higher in the list, no matter how shoddy
or irrelevant their product is, by trying to
fool and abuse the page ranking algorithms.
It'd be more accurate to call them
"Search Engine Spammers", because that's
exactly what they do.
I've got an old Leatherman, a Gerber, and
a Toolzall Pro Electrical.
The Gerber came with a nifty screwdriver bit
collection, has a nifty one-handed opening
action for the pliers, but the steel sucks:
It's soft and rusts badly. I consider it
an "urban survival tool", because it's
good for typical city situations.
The Leatherman is much better steel,
is a bit more awkward, but you're less likely
to pinch your skin when the pliers slip.
This is your rural puppy. Water won't bother
it so much.
The Toolzall is designed for electrical work.
Damn, but it's nice. Excellent steel, all the
blades lock, superb wirestrippers, rock solid.
It's all I carry for electrical work.
Then there's knives with USB drives in them
and computer case drivers, and so on, but
I've never tried them. Really, you just
have to figure out what you're after and
look for that. Just pay attention to the
steel: good steel doesn't bend like plastic.
What the "Homeland Security" has to do with my driving record is beyond me since states, not federal government control my ability to drive and should be pro-active in maintaining that right.
Isn't it obvious? It's because terrorists
are terrible drivers. I mean, put 'em in
a van and they end up driving into Embassies,
put them in an airplane and they
end up flying into buildings.
Pressing the decompression lever,
which lifted the valves
Spinning it up as fast as you can, and
Dropping the decompression lever. If the
starter crank didn't rebound and throw you across
the cabin from the sudden compression, the
engine would sometimes start.
My favourite engine was in a sailboat I once had:
a Yanmar marine diesel.
Since it's diesel, there's no ignition system.
It did have an alternator, but really it was
just there to charge the battery so the starter
motor could run, but it came with a handcrank
so that if need be, you could handstart it.
I did that once. Painful, but possible.
No engine computer. No electricity needed
whatsoever. Everything was mechanical.
The timing was done by a cogged system, so there
was no timing belt to break. In fact, the only
belt in the entire engine was for the alternator.
The water pump was also cogged.
The manual had a succinct sentence in the
debugging section: "If the engine is getting
clean fuel and air, it must run".
This was actually a bit pessimistic; one
fellow I knew ran out of fuel a few miles
away from home once in a flat calm and ended
up pouring a mixture of turpentine and
paint thinner into his fuel tank. The
diesel fired up and
run just fine, albeit a bit smokier than
usual.
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What it means is that in Canada the terrorists have not won.
People will generally do the right thing.
After a week or so, just walk around with something running Kismet to alert you to the obvious, but more importantly simply LOOK in peoples cubies: If you try to hide an AP/Router, its coverage will be so pathetic it's not a credible risk to begin with. Most all of them will be sitting in plain sight.
For anything you do find, and I suspect you'll find nothing because people will generally do the right thing when their job is on the line, just deal with it: if the AP is locked down to specific MAC addys and using 128b WEP and isn't close to public areas, just don't worry about it. After all, think about all the LAN jacks that are sitting around unguarded.
So, for example, five trillion positrons per second would be more correctly counted to as "208 billion twofours per second", which can otherwise be summarized as "one helluva frat party".
Glad to be of help.
A closer approximation yet is 52163/16604.
You know, this could get boring real fast.
Then it dawned on me: google is deliberately suppressing showing their ads so that Click Defense won't be the victim of click fraud!
In other words, google is actively preventing click fraud. Way to go, google. In your face, Click Defense!
Celestia rocks for all your astronomy needs, if you have a decent video card. Accept no substitutes.
If he were alive today he might very well choose to play his performances via a a synclavier.
This still works in X. I usually remap the otherwise useless "windows" key to be a compose key (Multi_key, in X parlance) on my keyboard.
Download xkeycaps and try it yourself.
Secondly, you can use py2exe to generate a win32 executable out of your python code, including all required packages. It's all self-contained. The end user will have no idea that it's python code.
Old cars were carburated. When floored, lots of extra fuel would get dumped in the carb, and any that didn't get burned in the cylinders just got dumped down the tailpipe (possibly igniting, causing exciting backfire noises). So in the 70's oil crisis, we were all told to accelerate gently.
Modern fuel injection has made that a thing of the past. Engines just do not get fed more fuel than they can burn, so it doesn't matter too much how hard you accelerate.
ELF, SLF, ULF, VLF, LF, MF, HF, VHF, UHF, SHF, EHF.
LF and MF are "Low" and "Medium" which basically covers everything up to 3 MHz. Everything above that was HF, or "High". This was fine around 1930. In fact, HF (3-30MHz) was considered a useless "junk" band at the time.
But alas, technology led to higher frequencies, and so "Very High" frequency was born.
Then came "Ultra High". This eventually still wasn't enough, which is why "Super High" came about.
Finally we have "Extremely High", which is good up to 300GHz. There isn't a designator for stuff beyond that, although terms like "Ridiculously High" and "F*cking High" get bandied about.
PS: The same prefixes also work for going low frequency; for example "Extremely Low" corresponds to 3 to 30 Hz.
That'll teach them very quickly to not make mistakes.
In short, a "|" really means "power on", as in physically connected to the mains, while "0" means "power off", as in physically disconnected.
When combined with an unbroken circle, as found on older monitors, it's a power toggle switch. The button is supposed to be sunken in while in the on position, and popped out while off. But it is still a physical power switch.
The broken-circle with line, as found on newer stuff, is "stand-by". Functionally, on my monitor and where I can find it the key part about its behaviour is that it only signals the device to turn off or on; it does not physically disconnect the power.
Still no sign of that green exploding circle icon though, but with a bit more training we might all eventually be able to shut down a Longhorn machine with confidence...
But note: when a device is off, and I press the button with that icon, it turns on. Conversely, if the device is already on, pressing it turns it off.
So, now here I am presented with what seems to be a power button, on a device that is currently on. So pressing it should logically turn it OFF.
Except, hey, WTF, why is it yellow? And what's that weird red thing next to it? I have searched through my entire house, and I haven't found a single device with that icon on it. On the other hand, I've found paired on/off buttons where a single line (|) means on, and a circle (o) means off. I've always understood those to be switches dedicated to on or off, and the combined broken circle one to be a toggle.
So hell, now I don't know what to do. Well, that happy looking green thing looks to me like it must be a lively "just keep things on please" button, so I'll consider that a cancel button and press that.
Whoops.
You can get DSL even in a place like Moosonee, in northern Ontario. This is a small town of 2500 souls near James Bay, surrounded by thousands of km of forest and shrubs and not much else.
You can also get DSL in places like Magnetawan (population 1300). Grab an atlas, look up a few tiny places in rural Ontario, and look them up yourself at http://canadianisp.com/ for yourself.
I can't believe you just wrote that.
In the case of the moths, random mutations cause some to be darker and some to be lighter. As has always been the case and is still the case today. That's mutation.
Since darker moths hide better, they got eaten by birds less, and so they survived and procreated more than their lighter cousins. And so today, gypsy moths are darker than they were 100 years ago. That's natural selection.
So, better camouflage, i.e. more functionality.
This, taken together, equals evolution. That's the whole theory in a nutshell. It's staring you right in the face.
The world is crammed full of examples of it. Whales have vestigals limbs from when they were land mammals. Us humans still have vestigal tails, and while in the womb briefly have primitive gills.
If you want to believe that some god or gods put all that there as some sort of a joke, go right ahead, but by Occams Razor, I think the theory of evolution explains it all in a much simpler way.
Now, as for creationism, it's just a theory too. However, it happens to be a theory with absolutely zero supporting evidence, and not a single aspect that can be observed in the field or replicated in the lab.
It's just a complete blind faith thing. It has exactly as much credibility as the theory that we're all living in "The Matrix". Or, as Descartes postulated long before that, that conceivable some entity is just making it appear to you that a world exists and works the way it does.
So, if you're going to reject blind faith, the theory of evolution is pretty well the only game left in town.
That's the job description of a "web site author".
So what then does an "SEO" do? As far as I can tell, exactly what this /. article is
about. Namely, spamming.
So let's call a spade a spade please.
It'd be more accurate to call them "Search Engine Spammers", because that's exactly what they do.
They cannot be beat for simplicity: google for giant fresnel lens
The Gerber came with a nifty screwdriver bit collection, has a nifty one-handed opening action for the pliers, but the steel sucks: It's soft and rusts badly. I consider it an "urban survival tool", because it's good for typical city situations.
The Leatherman is much better steel, is a bit more awkward, but you're less likely to pinch your skin when the pliers slip. This is your rural puppy. Water won't bother it so much.
The Toolzall is designed for electrical work. Damn, but it's nice. Excellent steel, all the blades lock, superb wirestrippers, rock solid. It's all I carry for electrical work.
Then there's knives with USB drives in them and computer case drivers, and so on, but I've never tried them. Really, you just have to figure out what you're after and look for that. Just pay attention to the steel: good steel doesn't bend like plastic.
After all, the thing is still exactly 1kg by definition, so technically it has lost 0 grams.
This sort of thing really underlines why we need a better definition of mass...
Isn't it obvious? It's because terrorists are terrible drivers. I mean, put 'em in a van and they end up driving into Embassies, put them in an airplane and they end up flying into buildings.
Hand starting was accomplished by
- Spraying liquid ether into the air intake
- Pressing the decompression lever,
which lifted the valves
- Spinning it up as fast as you can, and
- Dropping the decompression lever. If the
starter crank didn't rebound and throw you across
the cabin from the sudden compression, the
engine would sometimes start.
It was incredibly hard to do, but it did work.Since it's diesel, there's no ignition system. It did have an alternator, but really it was just there to charge the battery so the starter motor could run, but it came with a handcrank so that if need be, you could handstart it. I did that once. Painful, but possible.
No engine computer. No electricity needed whatsoever. Everything was mechanical.
The timing was done by a cogged system, so there was no timing belt to break. In fact, the only belt in the entire engine was for the alternator. The water pump was also cogged.
The manual had a succinct sentence in the debugging section: "If the engine is getting clean fuel and air, it must run". This was actually a bit pessimistic; one fellow I knew ran out of fuel a few miles away from home once in a flat calm and ended up pouring a mixture of turpentine and paint thinner into his fuel tank. The diesel fired up and run just fine, albeit a bit smokier than usual.