One of the issues is that the door is optically controlled. Great idea, but cats have been known to hold doors open once they have been unlocked.
A lady friend of mine had a cat who would get lonely when she went out to work. She would return to find the cat there with half a dozen of her mates lounging around and scoffing at the cat food.
She tried the magnetic collar. No good. It appears that the cat would prevent the door from closing until her friends were there. This was seen.
You could imagine in this particular situation. Drop mouse on floor, smile for camera, door unlocks and then pick up mouse and enter. I don't think this would work too well. The moggy is too likely to work it out.
Note the presentation of kills to a cats master or mistress is a sign of fealty. They are acknowledging your authority with the gift. If you don't greatfully accept the mouse/bird whatever, the cat will be bewildered!!!!!
Even with one download, it may come from many sources. This is a special feature of file sharing networks. Each person supplying a part of a movie or soundtrack is possibly breaking copyright. How do you follow a trail back to the person who physically copied the media? Almost impossible.
It all depends, especially around now, all the nominees that have been chasing votes have been sent to every person with a vote. They used to send tapes, they will be sending DVDs now. It isn't just the Oscars it is also every other ceremony. There will be thousands of these things knocking around, and it only takes one to get copied.
The number of good quality screeners floating around must be immense. To keep security on that lot would be impossible. Individual identification isn't really going to be possible once the VOB is lifted.
Is coding possible on a mass produced DVD? Batch coding is possible but that would be all.
A lot of movies I see out in Eastern Europe have that "Sampler" thing across it. It is also clear as the sampler features a US telephone number and the standard of the dubbing implicate that this was a US screener that some how disappeared.
Many people may be aware of the environemntal chaos left during earlier years in Russia. Well at least one company in St. Petersburg is using Phytoextraction as pat of the soil decontamination process, especially at oil petrochemical plants. The process takes some time and the oil industry has got the money to pay for it (although not always the inclination).
Note that plants are just part of the process, someone else here mentioned Fungi as well as other treatments.
Doesn't work - the thumb needs to be attached. The thumb is read capacitively, so a dead thumb wouldn't work, neither would an impression of a thumb print.
It is easier to record the signal sent back from the reader. There are some really neat gadgets around but they don't do much to protect the signal from being replayed.
As for DOS, a good long bath can do that. The puckering caused by the water passing through the skin tends to mess things up.
Cutler was Mr RSX-11M but Andy Goldstein was also part of the team for VMS. Both names are on as architects on the Starlet report (the arch document for VAX/VMS). Cutler is very good but he isn't perfect. Andy did a lot of the later VMS security stuff and he was responsible for the file system.
Th VMS file system was awesome, it worked transparently across a cluster in the early eighties and it supported ISAM out of the box. If you paid extra, you even got transaction journalling, on straight files. Anyway, Andy G stayed with Digital so you only got part of the time working on NT.
Another point is that Cutler is a legendary coder, he added paged support to 11M over a weekend, but I guess that he wasn't much of a team worker.
I agree about the market/sales droids - they were considered legendary in their awfulness even within the company.
Actually it was the workstations that did it. Digital's were relatively slow and expensive and could be delivered - eventually. Sun's were relatively cheap and you didn't have to stretch a salesman over a rack to get an allocation.
The Orange book is kind of useless as it is for standalone systems. Once you plug any rated system into a network, it no longer rated.
The criteria were sort of degraded though and NT (3.5 I seem to remember) got a rating that implied that it had a protected audit trail. Regrettably, there was no system to protect the audit log integrity, however the system still passed.
Also, a rating was only valid for a single release. Any update then back into the validation process.
One of the oldest sources were the rainbow books, namely the Red and Orange books that were produced by the NCSA. The Orange book addressed standalone systems and the Red book addressed networked computers. Regrettably some systems managed to be passed even though the criteria must have been 'nudged' to allow them to do so. The criteria addressed security but sort of left other aspects out. It was a standing joke that you could switch a computer off and bury under concrete and it would pass the A criteria of the Orange book.
Later the EU produced their Green book which looked at availability as well, this is kind of good for information systems but it doesn't really cover real-time control systems.
A long time ago, I worked on real-time control systems. We divided our systems into control/measurement, supervisory and at the top, information systems. At the lowest level, we are talking hard real-time and simple enough to be very reliable. They had to be as they were typically sitting by a man-sized chemistry set. The supervisory systems gave the pretty interfaces, they could crash, but generally they didn't. These were for control rooms, and whilst bypassing them was possible, it wasn't easy. The top level system ran all kinds of complicated software applictions that could and would occassionally crash. Apart from the crudest electrical standards for the stuff in the plant and the control room, there were no evaluation criteria.
Could someone help Walmart with a Linux preload? A Linux system with GUI and OpenOffice that could be quickly rolled onto these boxes would help a lot, especially if a warning message is attached saying that the s/w is unsupported and provided at no charge as a service to the customer. If the customer wishes to purchase and install other s/w, they can, but it is illegal to use unlicensed s/w.
When you see the price of Windows/Office unbundled, it is a lot harder to justify the cost of legally purchasing them. Ironically, the MS anti-piracy measures and new pricing will help Linux a lot.
There is Evolution now from Ximian which is a fairly good but non-virus/worm compatible version of Outlook.
The issue is that there isn't really an Exchange yet. True, there are some MAPI driven repositories for messages but that is all. No scheduling or anything.
The problem with something made of wire is that the wires eventually break and a lot earlier than the rest of the jacket.
I have seen a jacket made from a carbon fibre cloth. It conducts and the current path is such that you can make holes in the thing (i.e, for arms) without problems. The only critical pints on thw whole structure is where the wire joins it.
The heater can be used for other things as well such as engines or pipes. I forget the company making it, but I believe they are Russian. The jecket are cheap enough to give to a night watchman.
The Linksys thing may be router but how configurable it? If it can be reconfigured, it can be broken, look at the SNMP problems even on the big routers.
With LRP or one of the other baby distributions you can configure and monitor much as you want.
OTOH, it is a computer and it can even run some other small stuff too.
One of the greatest things that came out of the improvements, particularly in respect of MRP2/MRP3 was supply chain integration. It certainly the entire chain talking electronically together with EDIFACT and so on. So, we are certainly talking about the adoption of open interface standards.
However, this isn't open software. The problem is that sure, a company like Wall-Mart could move massively to open source, but they would have to be able to justify it to their shareholders. If it means an expansion of the IT department - sorry, that will be a difficult sell. Even if the cost of that increase is less than then the savings. Because, IT is not their core-business and shareholders like focus.
You can get the 486 to run quite nicely without H/D (lower power consumption) as a firewall. The trouble is some of those ISA cards are getting harder to find.
There are a lot of places in the world where a programmer can be found for less than $25/month. Those places can use computers too! Sure it can't cook (you need an overclocked Pentium for that) with it, but you can run administration for a clinic on it.
Food and water may be no.1 priority, but if they want to progress, they need infrastructure.
Some people aren't getting the point here. The old 486s are the Gas Guzzzlers, using lots of space and power and generating even more heat and noise. Do you really want to run it?
Give it away!!!!!
There are entire countries with very few computers out there. There are plenty of places around with reasonable power (nothing that a filtering UPS can't handle) but few PCs. They would love to have the latest and greatest but if they get a good old 486, they would be quite happy as long as they can use it.
Sorry, it won't un XP and you can't legally buy 95 for it or Win 3.11. This is where a mini-Linux can be particularly useful.
So they have to create their own software? No worries, man-hours are cheap there (I'm not being sexist here, women hours have a greater real value as they have to do all the hard work).
Because it is difficult to decide what you really need and what you don't. This is why RH has a 'workstation' and a 'server' configurations with different applications. Sure you can mix and match and the installer gets most of the dependencies right, but if that basic config has been done - it saves whole lot of time.
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I agree, this isn't really a subject that is anyway related/.. There are films that are definitely in our territory because of the subject matter, i.e., LOTR or others that used high-tech to make, such as Shrek.
I don't care for this movie anyway, but even had it been one that I liked such as "Shipping News", I would say "Read The Fine Motto Katz". It ain't news for nerds and it definietly "doesn't matter"!
The World Economic Forum was held this year in New York, however it is normally held in Switzerland. It is where the world political and business leaders get together. This is where the real meat is. The WSF is for the hangers on not the movers and shakers. Gets which one BillG goes to and makes his presentations at.
The fact is, the US Federal govt can afford to pay lots of money for support. It is almost easier for them to got to Microsoft than to deal with a myriad of companies providing support services.
In lesser developed countries there is another story. The WB will lend money to buy a system with a full house of Microsoft products. The problem is that the loan is a one off. How are the guys going to pay for support? MS support isn't that much cheaper in Pakistan. If you have source code then you have some chance of finding someone to maintain it.
To be honest, the economics of Open Source are good for Washington too, but the LDCs desperately need it. This is the message that needs to be put over at the WEF, not just the WSF.
About 10 years ago, I worked with some people who were doing avionics. It was all written in ADA. People liked the strong checking but the compiler was very expensive and hideously slow, even if the code generally worked.
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A lady friend of mine had a cat who would get lonely when she went out to work. She would return to find the cat there with half a dozen of her mates lounging around and scoffing at the cat food.
She tried the magnetic collar. No good. It appears that the cat would prevent the door from closing until her friends were there. This was seen.
You could imagine in this particular situation. Drop mouse on floor, smile for camera, door unlocks and then pick up mouse and enter. I don't think this would work too well. The moggy is too likely to work it out.
Note the presentation of kills to a cats master or mistress is a sign of fealty. They are acknowledging your authority with the gift. If you don't greatfully accept the mouse/bird whatever, the cat will be bewildered!!!!!
Even with one download, it may come from many sources. This is a special feature of file sharing networks. Each person supplying a part of a movie or soundtrack is possibly breaking copyright. How do you follow a trail back to the person who physically copied the media? Almost impossible.
The number of good quality screeners floating around must be immense. To keep security on that lot would be impossible. Individual identification isn't really going to be possible once the VOB is lifted.
A lot of movies I see out in Eastern Europe have that "Sampler" thing across it. It is also clear as the sampler features a US telephone number and the standard of the dubbing implicate that this was a US screener that some how disappeared.
Note that plants are just part of the process, someone else here mentioned Fungi as well as other treatments.
I agree with you and still consider it a poor idea.
It is easier to record the signal sent back from the reader. There are some really neat gadgets around but they don't do much to protect the signal from being replayed.
As for DOS, a good long bath can do that. The puckering caused by the water passing through the skin tends to mess things up.
Th VMS file system was awesome, it worked transparently across a cluster in the early eighties and it supported ISAM out of the box. If you paid extra, you even got transaction journalling, on straight files. Anyway, Andy G stayed with Digital so you only got part of the time working on NT.
Another point is that Cutler is a legendary coder, he added paged support to 11M over a weekend, but I guess that he wasn't much of a team worker.
I agree about the market/sales droids - they were considered legendary in their awfulness even within the company.
Actually it was the workstations that did it. Digital's were relatively slow and expensive and could be delivered - eventually. Sun's were relatively cheap and you didn't have to stretch a salesman over a rack to get an allocation.
The criteria were sort of degraded though and NT (3.5 I seem to remember) got a rating that implied that it had a protected audit trail. Regrettably, there was no system to protect the audit log integrity, however the system still passed.
Also, a rating was only valid for a single release. Any update then back into the validation process.
Later the EU produced their Green book which looked at availability as well, this is kind of good for information systems but it doesn't really cover real-time control systems.
A long time ago, I worked on real-time control systems. We divided our systems into control/measurement, supervisory and at the top, information systems. At the lowest level, we are talking hard real-time and simple enough to be very reliable. They had to be as they were typically sitting by a man-sized chemistry set. The supervisory systems gave the pretty interfaces, they could crash, but generally they didn't. These were for control rooms, and whilst bypassing them was possible, it wasn't easy. The top level system ran all kinds of complicated software applictions that could and would occassionally crash. Apart from the crudest electrical standards for the stuff in the plant and the control room, there were no evaluation criteria.
The above letter makes some very interesting points. It should be posted to the Linux Kernel list. For best reception in two months and a day's time.
Could someone help Walmart with a Linux preload? A Linux system with GUI and OpenOffice that could be quickly rolled onto these boxes would help a lot, especially if a warning message is attached saying that the s/w is unsupported and provided at no charge as a service to the customer. If the customer wishes to purchase and install other s/w, they can, but it is illegal to use unlicensed s/w.
When you see the price of Windows/Office unbundled, it is a lot harder to justify the cost of legally purchasing them. Ironically, the MS anti-piracy measures and new pricing will help Linux a lot.
There is Evolution now from Ximian which is a fairly good but non-virus/worm compatible version of Outlook.
The issue is that there isn't really an Exchange yet. True, there are some MAPI driven repositories for messages but that is all. No scheduling or anything.
I have seen a jacket made from a carbon fibre cloth. It conducts and the current path is such that you can make holes in the thing (i.e, for arms) without problems. The only critical pints on thw whole structure is where the wire joins it.
The heater can be used for other things as well such as engines or pipes. I forget the company making it, but I believe they are Russian. The jecket are cheap enough to give to a night watchman.
With LRP or one of the other baby distributions you can configure and monitor much as you want.
OTOH, it is a computer and it can even run some other small stuff too.
However, this isn't open software. The problem is that sure, a company like Wall-Mart could move massively to open source, but they would have to be able to justify it to their shareholders. If it means an expansion of the IT department - sorry, that will be a difficult sell. Even if the cost of that increase is less than then the savings. Because, IT is not their core-business and shareholders like focus.
You can get the 486 to run quite nicely without H/D (lower power consumption) as a firewall. The trouble is some of those ISA cards are getting harder to find.
Food and water may be no.1 priority, but if they want to progress, they need infrastructure.
Give it away!!!!!
There are entire countries with very few computers out there. There are plenty of places around with reasonable power (nothing that a filtering UPS can't handle) but few PCs. They would love to have the latest and greatest but if they get a good old 486, they would be quite happy as long as they can use it.
Sorry, it won't un XP and you can't legally buy 95 for it or Win 3.11. This is where a mini-Linux can be particularly useful.
So they have to create their own software? No worries, man-hours are cheap there (I'm not being sexist here, women hours have a greater real value as they have to do all the hard work).
Because it is difficult to decide what you really need and what you don't. This is why RH has a 'workstation' and a 'server' configurations with different applications. Sure you can mix and match and the installer gets most of the dependencies right, but if that basic config has been done - it saves whole lot of time.
I don't care for this movie anyway, but even had it been one that I liked such as "Shipping News", I would say "Read The Fine Motto Katz". It ain't news for nerds and it definietly "doesn't matter"!
Oh, for moderation on articles!!!!!!
If your company has no dependancy on a single vendor then this is easy, otherwise it would be hard.
The fact is, the US Federal govt can afford to pay lots of money for support. It is almost easier for them to got to Microsoft than to deal with a myriad of companies providing support services.
In lesser developed countries there is another story. The WB will lend money to buy a system with a full house of Microsoft products. The problem is that the loan is a one off. How are the guys going to pay for support? MS support isn't that much cheaper in Pakistan. If you have source code then you have some chance of finding someone to maintain it.
To be honest, the economics of Open Source are good for Washington too, but the LDCs desperately need it. This is the message that needs to be put over at the WEF, not just the WSF.
About 10 years ago, I worked with some people who were doing avionics. It was all written in ADA. People liked the strong checking but the compiler was very expensive and hideously slow, even if the code generally worked.