I would recommend "Securing and Optimizing Redhat Linux," which goes into great detail, down to recompiling packages for greater security, exactly what permissions to set on specific files, etc. Its only drawbacks are: it's specific to Redhat, and only covers versions up to 6.2. Still, there's some good general advice that is applicable to other distributions.
I'm doing something similar on my webpage: a simple Javascript that will display a friendly warning message to IE users:
var strBrowser = navigator.userAgent;
if (strBrowser.indexOf("MSIE")> 0) {
document.write("<p><strong>");
document.write("Warning: you appear to be viewing this page with Microsoft Internet Explorer, which has numerous bugs and ");
document.write('<a href="http://www.nwnetworks.com/iesc.html"> security holes.</a>');
document.write(" It is recommended that you upgrade to a more secure browser, ");
document.write('such as <a href="http://www.mozilla.org">Mozilla,</a> ; ');
document.write('<a href="http://home.netscape.com/computing/download/ ">Netscape,</a> ');
document.write('or <a href="http://www.opera.com">Opera.</a>');
document.write("</strong></p>");
}
Re:Where are the spaceships, flying cars, etc?
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Christmas in 2050
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· Score: 5, Interesting
As I believe Scott Adams has pointed out, predictions of future technological advances usually miss the unintended side effects. For example, the growth of Internet and the World Wide Web has brought quick access to vast amounts of information and knowledge, but has also brought us junk e-mail, pop-ups, patent abuses (Amazon).
So what will Christmas 2050 bring? Here are a couple of random thoughts... Currently kids have to wait to open their presents while dad checks his digital camera|video camera. In 2050, they'll be waiting while he hooks up everyone's head-mounted stim-sim recorders - "to capture the moment."
There's been talk lately of "intelligent paper" and "flexible displays." Extrapolating this forward, I'd expect your Christmas presents in 2050 to require you to watch a commercial before you can open them.
If we're defining "space junk" as "piece(s) of equipment no longer needed, and left in orbit," then the first piece was the upper stage of the rocket that launched Sputnik. This upper stage remained briefly in a lower orbit than Sputnik itself, and re-entered the atmosphere some time (a few weeks?) later.
If we define "space junk" as "equipment brought into space for some other purpose but which unintentionally ended up being left, unusable, in orbit" then the honor would go to the camera that one of the Gemini astronauts (Ed White?) accidentally let go of during his spacewalk.
Note: I read all this when I was in elementary school, so I may not have the details right.
At first my browser (IE5.5 on Win2K, with Japanese support installed) did't display your post correctly, but after switching the encoding to "Unicode," all the hiragana displays correctly.
I remember reading an article years ago about people in Japan donating old pianos, mostly to southeast Asia (There had been a boom in piano sales in Japan a while back, when many parents were signing their kids up for piano lessons, but with the boom over, most of these pianos sat unused in Japanese homes).
The problem was that pianos made for sale in Japan didn't handle the humid climate of southeast Asia and often became warped, as the one in the Amazon did.
I think it also mentioned some kind of treatment that can be done to the pianos at the manufacture time, to help strengthen them in humid climates.
The RULE Project was mentioned here on Slashdot back in February. It may not be ready for prime-time yet, but they seem to be trying to do the same thing as you: run an up to date version of Redhat on minimal (486/32MB RAM) hardware.
As I recall, the Linux version of WordPerfect that
was available as a free download a few years ago, had a console mode as well as a GUI mode. I can't say for sure, since I never could get it to install:)
Many federal laws, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Civil Rights Act, the OSHA laws, to name a few, explicitly exempt the US congress and their staff.
Congress doesn't have to follow that law... because Congress passed a law that says so:)
IANAL, but I'd guess it's like formerly restricted encryption software. Back when we had the 128-bit version of Netscape and the 40-bit "export" version, I seem to recall there being a question about whether or not you could travel abroad with a laptop that had the strong version installed.
It's probably legal to download it abroad and bring it into the US, but not to distribute it to anyone. Of course there's no way this can be enforced, and the US government is much more concerned about drugs and weapons (is strong encryption software still classified as a "munition?") than literature (unless it's pornography)
The October 23, 2002 Wall Street Journal has a review of the new Internet-enabled refrigerator. Basically a laptop built into the door. Can be used with touch-screen or stylus. Only $8000.
People keep making the point that "only 20000 isn't enough to swing any election," but they seem to be overlooking the fact that not everyone votes.
When you look at the number of people who are 1) citizens 2) 18 or over and 3) have bothered to register and 4) actually bother to go to the polls, it becomes clear that American elections and issues are really decided by a fairly small portion of the population.
Still, as a libertarian myself, though I admire these guys' ideals, from a practical point of view, I don't think their plan has much chance of success.
Is there anything wrong with patenting something that could save people's lives? No. The purpose of patents is to promote invention by giving inventors an incentive in the form of a "head start," before their idea becomes public domain.
I see two real problems here: A patent system that allows someone to claim a patent on something they didn't invent (a gene), and parties that will abuse the system for unethical gain.
$3000 may sound like a lot of money (to me it certainly is). However, it may be the minimum amount necessary to for the inventor to recoup the costs associated with developing his invention (and thus justify its development in the first place). Whatever the price, though, if it is set too high, then consumers (whether they're governments, insurance companies, or individual patients) will consume less. If it's too low, there will be shortages. As much as many of us would wish otherwise, the laws of economics apply to medicine just as in every other field.
We support about 12 sites around the US. Between distributing large software packages like Oracle, and copying 500+ meg.pst files for users moving to new locations (yes, I really need EVERY email I've sent AND received during the last 3 years, even the Powerpoint-attachment birthday announcements), we go through quite a lot of them. I've learned to keep my own private stash locked in my desk. They become quite a commodity.
..they won't be available in the US in time for Halloween.:(
I'd love to get my hands on, er, legs in, a pair of these!
Random thoughts from one who has been there...
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Jobs in Japan?
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· Score: 3, Informative
As a non-Japanese, you must have a proper visa to work in Japan. To get a visa, of course, you must already have a job. Basically this means you have to find some company that finds your talents worth going through a lot of government red tape, rather than just hiring a Japanese.
(Note: Yes, it's possible to work in Japan without a visa, but it usually involves "entertainment"-type jobs such as bar host(ess)ing, stripping, or English conversation teaching).
The English-language newspaper the Japan Times (they have a website, too) has a classified section every Monday. You might consider arriving on a Sunday night, picking up a Japan Times on Monday (they sell them at big bookstores and many larger train stations), and start calling around. I did this a couple of years ago, and got several interviews. Most places can probably interview you in Osaka or Tokyo, even if it's for a job is for elsewhere.
As I recall, programmers were the most in demand among IT workers. Unix admin skills seemed pretty highly valued as well.
One final piece of advice: be prepared to make multiple trips. You may get an interview, return home, and then then called back to Japan for a second interview (happened to me).
Anyway, I lived in Japan for over 3 years (Tokyo and Sapporo), mainly as a student, and found it a fascinating experience and a great place to live.
This sounds like a step in the right direction, though the thought of my ISP blocking sites without notifying me is a little uncomfortable.
I'd make one slight modification to the above plan: if teensluts.com continues to spam users, even after their ISP has warned them, the ISP redirects requests to teensluts.com to a special page, with a message like "[site name] is being blocked for sending unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam). It will be available again in [x] days. To prevent this site from being blocked again, please email them at [mailto link] at let them know that you do not want spam in your mailbox."
This way:
- The ISP users know why they can't access the site
- The offending site loses web traffic
- The offending site may get a few angry emails from users
- Hopefully the offending site's e-mail address will get harvested, causing them to start get spammed
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I would recommend "Securing and Optimizing Redhat Linux," which goes into great detail, down to recompiling packages for greater security, exactly what permissions to set on specific files, etc. Its only drawbacks are: it's specific to Redhat, and only covers versions up to 6.2. Still, there's some good general advice that is applicable to other distributions.
Well, at least soon Office will support both Norweigan languages :)
I'm doing something similar on my webpage: a simple Javascript that will display a friendly warning message to IE users:
/ ">Netscape,</a> ');
var strBrowser = navigator.userAgent;
if (strBrowser.indexOf("MSIE")> 0) {
document.write("<p><strong>");
document.write("Warning: you appear to be viewing this page with Microsoft Internet Explorer, which has numerous bugs and ");
document.write('<a href="http://www.nwnetworks.com/iesc.html"> security holes.</a>');
document.write(" It is recommended that you upgrade to a more secure browser, ");
document.write('such as <a href="http://www.mozilla.org">Mozilla,</a> ; ');
document.write('<a href="http://home.netscape.com/computing/download
document.write('or <a href="http://www.opera.com">Opera.</a>');
document.write("</strong></p>");
}
As I believe Scott Adams has pointed out, predictions of future technological advances usually miss the unintended side effects. For example, the growth of Internet and the World Wide Web has brought quick access to vast amounts of information and knowledge, but has also brought us junk e-mail, pop-ups, patent abuses (Amazon). So what will Christmas 2050 bring? Here are a couple of random thoughts...
Currently kids have to wait to open their presents while dad checks his digital camera|video camera. In 2050, they'll be waiting while he hooks up everyone's head-mounted stim-sim recorders - "to capture the moment."
There's been talk lately of "intelligent paper" and "flexible displays." Extrapolating this forward, I'd expect your Christmas presents in 2050 to require you to watch a commercial before you can open them.
If we're defining "space junk" as "piece(s) of equipment no longer needed, and left in orbit," then the first piece was the upper stage of the rocket that launched Sputnik. This upper stage remained briefly in a lower orbit than Sputnik itself, and re-entered the atmosphere some time (a few weeks?) later.
If we define "space junk" as "equipment brought into space for some other purpose but which unintentionally ended up being left, unusable, in orbit" then the honor would go to the camera that one of the Gemini astronauts (Ed White?) accidentally let go of during his spacewalk.
Note: I read all this when I was in elementary school, so I may not have the details right.
At first my browser (IE5.5 on Win2K, with Japanese support installed) did't display your post correctly, but after switching the encoding to "Unicode," all the hiragana displays correctly.
I remember reading an article years ago about people in Japan donating old pianos, mostly to southeast Asia (There had been a boom in piano sales in Japan a while back, when many parents were signing their kids up for piano lessons, but with the boom over, most of these pianos sat unused in Japanese homes).
The problem was that pianos made for sale in Japan didn't handle the humid climate of southeast Asia and often became warped, as the one in the Amazon did.
I think it also mentioned some kind of treatment that can be done to the pianos at the manufacture time, to help strengthen them in humid climates.
The RULE Project was mentioned here on Slashdot back in February. It may not be ready for prime-time yet, but they seem to be trying to do the same thing as you: run an up to date version of Redhat on minimal (486/32MB RAM) hardware.
As I recall, the Linux version of WordPerfect that was available as a free download a few years ago, had a console mode as well as a GUI mode. I can't say for sure, since I never could get it to install :)
Many federal laws, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Civil Rights Act, the OSHA laws, to name a few, explicitly exempt the US congress and their staff. :)
Congress doesn't have to follow that law... because Congress passed a law that says so
A concert at the end of the Universe? Wouldn't Disaster Area be a more appropriate act?
"That's no moon... It's a space station!"
IANAL, but I'd guess it's like formerly restricted encryption software. Back when we had the 128-bit version of Netscape and the 40-bit "export" version, I seem to recall there being a question about whether or not you could travel abroad with a laptop that had the strong version installed.
It's probably legal to download it abroad and bring it into the US, but not to distribute it to anyone. Of course there's no way this can be enforced, and the US government is much more concerned about drugs and weapons (is strong encryption software still classified as a "munition?") than literature (unless it's pornography)
The October 23, 2002 Wall Street Journal has a review of the new Internet-enabled refrigerator. Basically a laptop built into the door. Can be used with touch-screen or stylus. Only $8000.
No, I think they call it "Fording at Homu."
People keep making the point that "only 20000 isn't enough to swing any election," but they seem to be overlooking the fact that not everyone votes. When you look at the number of people who are 1) citizens 2) 18 or over and 3) have bothered to register and 4) actually bother to go to the polls, it becomes clear that American elections and issues are really decided by a fairly small portion of the population.
Still, as a libertarian myself, though I admire these guys' ideals, from a practical point of view, I don't think their plan has much chance of success.
Is there anything wrong with patenting something that could save people's lives? No. The purpose of patents is to promote invention by giving inventors an incentive in the form of a "head start," before their idea becomes public domain.
I see two real problems here: A patent system that allows someone to claim a patent on something they didn't invent (a gene), and parties that will abuse the system for unethical gain.
$3000 may sound like a lot of money (to me it certainly is). However, it may be the minimum amount necessary to for the inventor to recoup the costs associated with developing his invention (and thus justify its development in the first place). Whatever the price, though, if it is set too high, then consumers (whether they're governments, insurance companies, or individual patients) will consume less. If it's too low, there will be shortages. As much as many of us would wish otherwise, the laws of economics apply to medicine just as in every other field.
I'm running Redhat 7.2 on a 486DX with 32MB of RAM (It's a router/firewall). The trick is to use the text-based installation rather than the GUI.
2112: Attention all planets of the Solar Federation: We have assumed control.
Is she the one who returned her DVD player because she "didn't like those black bars at the top and bottom of the screen?"
We support about 12 sites around the US. Between distributing large software packages like Oracle, and copying 500+ meg
I've learned to keep my own private stash locked in my desk. They become quite a commodity.
I'd love to get my hands on, er, legs in, a pair of these!
As a non-Japanese, you must have a proper visa to work in Japan. To get a visa, of course, you must already have a job. Basically this means you have to find some company that finds your talents worth going through a lot of government red tape, rather than just hiring a Japanese.
(Note: Yes, it's possible to work in Japan without a visa, but it usually involves "entertainment"-type jobs such as bar host(ess)ing, stripping, or English conversation teaching).
The English-language newspaper the Japan Times (they have a website, too) has a classified section every Monday. You might consider arriving on a Sunday night, picking up a Japan Times on Monday (they sell them at big bookstores and many larger train stations), and start calling around. I did this a couple of years ago, and got several interviews. Most places can probably interview you in Osaka or Tokyo, even if it's for a job is for elsewhere.
As I recall, programmers were the most in demand among IT workers. Unix admin skills seemed pretty highly valued as well.
One final piece of advice: be prepared to make multiple trips. You may get an interview, return home, and then then called back to Japan for a second interview (happened to me).
Anyway, I lived in Japan for over 3 years (Tokyo and Sapporo), mainly as a student, and found it a fascinating experience and a great place to live.
Hope this helps.
(70's cartoon reference)
Looks like another one of Spectra's plots to me.
Watch the skies for incoming giant robots.
(/70's cartoon reference)
This sounds like a step in the right direction, though the thought of my ISP blocking sites without notifying me is a little uncomfortable.
I'd make one slight modification to the above plan: if teensluts.com continues to spam users, even after their ISP has warned them, the ISP redirects requests to teensluts.com to a special page, with a message like "[site name] is being blocked for sending unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam). It will be available again in [x] days. To prevent this site from being blocked again, please email them at [mailto link] at let them know that you do not want spam in your mailbox."
This way:
- The ISP users know why they can't access the site
- The offending site loses web traffic
- The offending site may get a few angry emails from users
- Hopefully the offending site's e-mail address will get harvested, causing them to start get spammed