I agree with that. I don't really care about CPU types, or machine code. I just care that the platform acts like the platform I expect. It's just something with an IP stack and some storage to me. I don't care if it's big or little endian, 64 bit, or 32 bit. Some people love to get down and dirty with their coding - I on the other hand have moved into Java. Sure, it's not entirely Write once, run anywhere, but it doesn't take much to change it around.
Isn't that part of the problem? People think Yahoo = search + mail, and that yahoo.com is the search page, and then say "but it's not as clean as Google's search page".
Not really. That's just how much you drive. I built a black-box about 14 years ago, and it measured things like: speed, revs, G force, accelerator, brake, clutch, gear selected, what state the lights/indicators/windscreen wipers were on, etc.
Basically, after a crash, you would have been able to recreate the lead up to the accident exactly. Were they braking, were they at 5000 revs in 3rd gear, or 3000 in 5th. Did they have their lights on, etc.
Wrong. It's generally from about 300 metres in cities to 1-4 miles in rural areas. And it's not that accurate. It's just the point in the middle of the towers that your phone can "see". Check out http://calum.org/location/ - it uses both methods. GPS when I'm running the GPS app on my phone, and cell-triangulation at other times. Currently, it says I'm at 51.452371,-2.618589 +/-372 metres. Good, but not that good. Plus you only update when you make/receive a call/text/data session, switch the phone on/off, change cells, or every 90 mins otherwise. Way inaccurate for tracking cars.
Yep. A previous idea I had was for a black-box for cars. You could buy one, and have your insurance lowered, because it would make working out what happened after a crash much easier. "You did 96 mph through this cross-roads - we're not going to pay."
Another idea I had years ago. My idea though was to pay people to run the software on their phones (just as Google pay people to have ads on their sites - paying per hour of data uploaded, or something similar), and then lease the aggregated data to interested parties. Companies interested in building/buying toll roads, government agencies to see if new roads need to be built, etc etc.
However, with SatNav getting more and more sophisticated, it was only going to be a matter of time before TomTom (or whoever) built a model where it uploaded your position back to them, enabling them to build up a realtime picture of traffic speeds, which they could then use to update drivers to avoid jams, etc.
Like many others, I thought that Ubuntu Linux was just another flavor-of-the-month distribution, but the tenacity, reliability, and graciousness of the Ubuntu community has proved us all wrong. Or maybe, it's just the billionaire who runs Ubuntu.
Change the SSH port to something non-standard. And if you've compiled SSH with tcpd: echo sshd: my.home.ip/255.255.255.255 >>/etc/hosts.allow ; echo sshd: ALL >>/etc/hosts.deny
Then the only connections can come from my home machine (or whatever ranges you think you're likely to log in from). You can sshd:.uk in/etc/hosts.allow too, or sshd:.cn in/etc/hosts.deny, although trusting what the reserve DNS says is probably not the cleverest.
I don't think it matters. Why do we need another? We already have our stable, secure, open, free (x2) Operating System. It just sounds like nostalgia from my point of view.
A bunch of RewriteRules will change any image, where the referrer isn't your own domain, into our favourite "extreme mooning" hello.jpg. Stops MySpace people using your pics on their page.
I suspect that the vast percentage of viewers to this site are Anonymous/not logged in, and hence can't see your sig. So here's the link: SSH not secure enough? Try Ostiary.
There's a long way between "approving" of something, and not condemning it. Just because you don't condemn/reject something, doesn't mean you approve of it. Approve to me means that you feel it's a positive thing. What if Linus just doesn't care either way, but doesn't feel that there's a need to reject/ban it?
Well, unfortunately, Apache and Postgres are not magically safe. However, mod_security can definitely help secure Apache, by filtering suspicious requests.
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I agree with that. I don't really care about CPU types, or machine code. I just care that the platform acts like the platform I expect. It's just something with an IP stack and some storage to me. I don't care if it's big or little endian, 64 bit, or 32 bit. Some people love to get down and dirty with their coding - I on the other hand have moved into Java. Sure, it's not entirely Write once, run anywhere, but it doesn't take much to change it around.
Zen? :)
I assume you're meaning the US by "we". Define "major war" - how can we measure it?
Isn't that part of the problem? People think Yahoo = search + mail, and that yahoo.com is the search page, and then say "but it's not as clean as Google's search page".
Not really. That's just how much you drive. I built a black-box about 14 years ago, and it measured things like: speed, revs, G force, accelerator, brake, clutch, gear selected, what state the lights/indicators/windscreen wipers were on, etc.
Basically, after a crash, you would have been able to recreate the lead up to the accident exactly. Were they braking, were they at 5000 revs in 3rd gear, or 3000 in 5th. Did they have their lights on, etc.
Wrong. It's generally from about 300 metres in cities to 1-4 miles in rural areas. And it's not that accurate. It's just the point in the middle of the towers that your phone can "see". Check out http://calum.org/location/ - it uses both methods. GPS when I'm running the GPS app on my phone, and cell-triangulation at other times. Currently, it says I'm at 51.452371,-2.618589 +/-372 metres. Good, but not that good. Plus you only update when you make/receive a call/text/data session, switch the phone on/off, change cells, or every 90 mins otherwise. Way inaccurate for tracking cars.
Yep. A previous idea I had was for a black-box for cars. You could buy one, and have your insurance lowered, because it would make working out what happened after a crash much easier. "You did 96 mph through this cross-roads - we're not going to pay."
Another idea I had years ago. My idea though was to pay people to run the software on their phones (just as Google pay people to have ads on their sites - paying per hour of data uploaded, or something similar), and then lease the aggregated data to interested parties. Companies interested in building/buying toll roads, government agencies to see if new roads need to be built, etc etc.
However, with SatNav getting more and more sophisticated, it was only going to be a matter of time before TomTom (or whoever) built a model where it uploaded your position back to them, enabling them to build up a realtime picture of traffic speeds, which they could then use to update drivers to avoid jams, etc.
Also, do not supply said information to any UK government agency.
That could explain a lot. Messing with email instead of writing solid thrust controllers. :)
Change the SSH port to something non-standard. And if you've compiled SSH with tcpd: echo sshd: my.home.ip/255.255.255.255 >> /etc/hosts.allow ; echo sshd: ALL >> /etc/hosts.deny .uk in /etc/hosts.allow too, or sshd: .cn in /etc/hosts.deny, although trusting what the reserve DNS says is probably not the cleverest.
Then the only connections can come from my home machine (or whatever ranges you think you're likely to log in from). You can sshd:
Wow, only one from the UK. That's pretty poor showing chaps. C'mon, I'm sure we can do better.
I don't think it matters. Why do we need another? We already have our stable, secure, open, free (x2) Operating System. It just sounds like nostalgia from my point of view.
mooo19/story.html ring any bells?
In a random order. With no page numbers.
I'll let you into a secret. Everything is a deadly poison.
A bunch of RewriteRules will change any image, where the referrer isn't your own domain, into our favourite "extreme mooning" hello.jpg. Stops MySpace people using your pics on their page.
I suspect that the vast percentage of viewers to this site are Anonymous/not logged in, and hence can't see your sig. So here's the link: SSH not secure enough? Try Ostiary.
There's a long way between "approving" of something, and not condemning it. Just because you don't condemn/reject something, doesn't mean you approve of it. Approve to me means that you feel it's a positive thing. What if Linus just doesn't care either way, but doesn't feel that there's a need to reject/ban it?
Well, unfortunately, Apache and Postgres are not magically safe. However, mod_security can definitely help secure Apache, by filtering suspicious requests.
So elucidate then.