I'm not sure if the Multi Tool I got as a gift from Network Appliances was a *real* Letherman, but it was absolutely sweet.
It had a good knife, ruler, multi-bit screwdriver, pliers and more. The best thing was that it came with a bit so you could open a NetApp box, if you needed to.
The bad thing was that none of the tools were fixed, which cost me some folds of skin.
I've actually found the upper limit to be 3Gb, this meant that for the DS server I'm running I had to set all the caching options to a 2.5Gb threshhold leaving 0.5Gb for the DS process itself. (To be on the safe side.)
I just run multiple instances with partially replicated trees.
BTW. I agree with the fact that this is a little silly to be posting as "News". Then again I could always remove the "Ask Slashdot" headlines if I was really that bothed about this.
I also think that any UIs which implement the default windows keyboard shortcuts are good, obviously where they aren't already implemented by the OS.
-N for new, and -Y or -Z for error correction are really handy. They just need to catch me pushing and:wq - and ignore it - then I'd be completely happy.
Their criteria included the number of reported vulnerabilities and their severity, as well as the number of patches issued and days of risk -- the period from when a vulnerability is first reported to when a patch is issued.
On average, the Windows setup had just over 30 days of risk versus 71 days for the Red Hat setup, their study found.
Eh... From what I can find Richard Ford and Herbert Thompson don't state how it is reported. The data the vulnerability is announced to the world, or when the patch is released. Usually the fault isn't disclosed until the patch is released, for Windows; my experience with OSS is the opposite, it is disclosed and then a patch is realease, and you can find unofficial patches or workarounds before the official patch is released.
If I don't know I'm vulnerable doesn't make me safer.
I'll get off the ful disclosure bandwagon before somebody hits me with Linux kernel patches.;)
I think there are so many possibilities for titles with students and bodies.
"Students and other corpes' tracked by RFID Tags" "Students' bodies tracked by RFID Tags" "RFID tags, students wouldn't be seen dead without them"
Or in the style of tabloids: "RFID Tags studentbody becomes carrier, tracking the dead." "RFID tags following you into the grave" "'I can see dead people,' say RFID trackers"
I thought about a printer too, but emailing them pdf's??? Why?
If she has access to a computer and internet, unless there's some magic email that doesn't need internet, and you send a printer she can download the text documents from the internet and format them herself
The second option, if you like your friend, is te send her frequent letters and add a 6 or 7pt chapter or two of the book. If she has access to a copier, which is probably easier than getting to an Internet connection, then she can blow them up.
The other option, which has been done on the west coast, is to connected to the internet over ham radio.
And otherwise she's have to do what my friend did when she went to Namibia for 6 months... Suffer and buy books instead, once she's finished reading them she can give them away or sell them. (That's what I do when I go backpacking, although... even basecamp of the K2 there's a Internet connection.)
Nobody said joining the Peace Corps was going to be easy.
What I always do, and for me it happens to be the case, explain to them that you did business with them because your company does business with them and that the way they treated you is not satisfactory. Mentioning an annual budget in the hundreds of thousands and say that if they can't solve it you'll talk to the finance department telling them what happened and how they really treat their customers.
If you have free time: the other way is just to directly call their headoffice and see how high you can get, make sure you get a face to face meeting with the highest guy you can get, then waste an hour or two of his time. Which should be the equivelent of the amount they deducted and explain at the end of the meeting that you purpousfully wasted their time to earn back the money deducted by buying faulty equipment, that'll piss them off.
Also apply to jobs at the firm and just use the interview to complain about the service you got at the store and how you think they really need you to make it less crappy.
And if all else fails, get a soapbox and stand outside the store, on a public pavement and explain to passing customers how they treated you, do it on their bussiest day.
You can get a refund, you'll probably get something even better if you explain that your campaining cost money and loss of earnings. (I think that may be blackmail or racketing or something...)
Just so you know I accept no liability if you do anything mentioned above. IANAL, AFAIK and GFDL.
Do you know what the trick is to resolution, I could get it up to 3 feet wide and get a really grainy picture... So I made the picture a little out of focus, not so grainy and the eyes compensate slightly.
Read the other comment below, seems somebody has already build the overhead projector, minus the halogen light...
The first version was about 5 kilograms, made of stainless steel, and the size of a shoebox, but for the second one I found a little cheap projector, about the size of a publisher paperback (10x20x5cm) plastic so light weight.
The first version used 100 Watt lightbulbs, which is why I needed an extra cooler. I didn't have room to fit a low heat long life bulb in. Obviously it only ran on mains electricity.
The second version uses a far less powerful bulb, which means less quality, but for a 12v system what do you expect. I was interested to see they used leds, which is probably a smarter idea, but as I was building using spare parts and second hand gear I guess it would have been lucky to find a light source like that.
I build a projector by taking a slide projector and one of those miniture lcd screens.
I broke the screen open, removed the backlight and mounted in the projector. Hey presto a new projector. Everything ran on 12v, so I could in principle attach it to batteries or car adapter.
Total cost 4x3 cm LCD screen $60 Second hand projector $10 Total $70
Ok, so the image isn't the best quality and I had to get an extra cooling fan for the screen, which cost me about $10. My next project is with a laptop screen and an overhead projector with a one of those builders halogen lights. Then I can watch my favorite tv program against the side of a building.
As I said I already own it, and I though it was so good that I bought it as presents for some of my friend. The first edition is handy and I keep it on my desk as a reference when man pages just don't cut it.
I also own an electronic version so I don't have to take it with me when I have to go out on a job.
If the second edition is as good as the first then I'd advise everybody to get a copy.
Sadly not at the moment, I'm working in Switzerland while my family lives in the Netherlands, but as I'm back every weekend, courtesy of my employer I can still go over the people needing my help and go over and help them.
During the summer, when I'm in the Netherlands it will be about 2 meals a week of work, with the occasional printed t-shirt, psychodelic gear and painting... And lets not forget some piece of mind...;)
I do exactly the same, I'll only work on people's machines who have lost something very important: Masters thesis important. Or for people who use their computer to support themselves: selling their paintings, printed t-shirts, etc.
From student I'll ask for a meal, 'cause I'm too lazy to cook and otherwise I ask them for whatever they think I'm worth in whatever the product is they make.
I've gotten everything from t-shirts to 3' by 8' feet paintings, some have even given me the keys to their house/appartment so I can look after them and their computer while they are away, some huge places in there.
I've even worked for computer hardware that I then give to a non profit organization, who give me peace of mind. I also do work for the NPO, keeping there computers up so they can do there good works around the world.
And my family all pay me by cooking for me, we make a night of it, chatting and fixing.
I will work for almost anything, but rarely for money. Besides from my regular employer.
It's the old idea, I think my skills are worth something, you have no or little money, you give me something you do and I'll exchange it for something I do.
The best thing about it is that you don't pay tax over it.
In the Netherlands you can still reverse engineer, even if a EULA forbids it. Once you've paid for it it's yours to do with what you wish. If you want to stick it through a decompiler or examine the assembly you can.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I remember correctly the DMCA even provides for reverse engineering if it is for interoperability that the provider won't or can't provide. So if some provider of software doesn't and won't provide a feature it's in your right to create that feature. IANAL so don't take my word for it.
I can't wait for a virus writer to sue Norton or McAfee for DMCA violations. That would be fun.
It seems like everytime I read an article it's another social comentary on the structure of F/OSS, what's up with that?
It's strange how at one time the F/OSS community is a marginalized group under attack from every large company who thinks it's destroying their market share and now it's so important that everybody and their dog is writing about how wonderful the development structure is.
I'm not saying it's not wonderful, but I'm not saying it is either. Then again it seems that everybody and their dog is saying that too.
Oh, and on the comment: "I think that a democratic election is better than a dictatorship."
Is that a dig at Bush or a dig at Linus? Personally, and some research back me up on this, I think that dictatorships are sometimes needed to get the ball rolling. Then once the dictator gets too big for their boots and there's a revolt. In the case of Linus he elected deputies to help him with the leadership role.
Here's a quote I borrowed under the GFDL, from Wikipedia:
Edmund Burke:
"I cannot help concurring [e.g., with Aristotle, inter alios] that an absolute democracy, no more than an absolute monarchy, is not to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government. They think it rather the corruption and degeneracy than the sound constitution of a republic."
See now I'm a F/OSS social commentary writer too...;)
BTW, the original confusion, see subject, came from the fact that I didn't see the obligatory OSTG warning in the message, it's almost as important and as much a part of/. as the jibes about Will Wheaton in the story above.
Slashdot Mirror
I actually saw some Victorinox Swiss Army Knife with 256 Mb USB storage at the CeBIT last year, as giveaways, I didn't get one sadly... :(
I'm not sure if the Multi Tool I got as a gift from Network Appliances was a *real* Letherman, but it was absolutely sweet.
It had a good knife, ruler, multi-bit screwdriver, pliers and more. The best thing was that it came with a bit so you could open a NetApp box, if you needed to.
The bad thing was that none of the tools were fixed, which cost me some folds of skin.
I'd even just say Lego.
Although mindstorms is a lot of fun.
I've actually found the upper limit to be 3Gb, this meant that for the DS server I'm running I had to set all the caching options to a 2.5Gb threshhold leaving 0.5Gb for the DS process itself. (To be on the safe side.)
I just run multiple instances with partially replicated trees.
BTW. I agree with the fact that this is a little silly to be posting as "News". Then again I could always remove the "Ask Slashdot" headlines if I was really that bothed about this.
That should have been and ...
should have used preview
grmbl
I didn't laugh, I actually thought of vim too.
I also think that any UIs which implement the default windows keyboard shortcuts are good, obviously where they aren't already implemented by the OS.
-N for new, and -Y or -Z for error correction are really handy. They just need to catch me pushing and
If you read my comments then you'll regularly see I get confused with acronyms.
Who els read this as Cascading Style Sheets?
I know what it is: "The men who stare at goats."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_influencing
This seems like a Chaos Theory to me. Or is it Entropy... Or Heisenberg's theory...
Or perhaps it's He who can't be mentioned for fear of being called a Troll...
I think I remember an Asimov short story with the same idea.
I think there are so many possibilities for titles with students and bodies.
"Students and other corpes' tracked by RFID Tags"
"Students' bodies tracked by RFID Tags"
"RFID tags, students wouldn't be seen dead without them"
Or in the style of tabloids:
"RFID Tags studentbody becomes carrier, tracking the dead."
"RFID tags following you into the grave"
"'I can see dead people,' say RFID trackers"
I thought about a printer too, but emailing them pdf's??? Why?
If she has access to a computer and internet, unless there's some magic email that doesn't need internet, and you send a printer she can download the text documents from the internet and format them herself
The second option, if you like your friend, is te send her frequent letters and add a 6 or 7pt chapter or two of the book. If she has access to a copier, which is probably easier than getting to an Internet connection, then she can blow them up.
The other option, which has been done on the west coast, is to connected to the internet over ham radio.
And otherwise she's have to do what my friend did when she went to Namibia for 6 months... Suffer and buy books instead, once she's finished reading them she can give them away or sell them. (That's what I do when I go backpacking, although... even basecamp of the K2 there's a Internet connection.)
Nobody said joining the Peace Corps was going to be easy.
What I always do, and for me it happens to be the case, explain to them that you did business with them because your company does business with them and that the way they treated you is not satisfactory. Mentioning an annual budget in the hundreds of thousands and say that if they can't solve it you'll talk to the finance department telling them what happened and how they really treat their customers.
If you have free time: the other way is just to directly call their headoffice and see how high you can get, make sure you get a face to face meeting with the highest guy you can get, then waste an hour or two of his time. Which should be the equivelent of the amount they deducted and explain at the end of the meeting that you purpousfully wasted their time to earn back the money deducted by buying faulty equipment, that'll piss them off.
Also apply to jobs at the firm and just use the interview to complain about the service you got at the store and how you think they really need you to make it less crappy.
And if all else fails, get a soapbox and stand outside the store, on a public pavement and explain to passing customers how they treated you, do it on their bussiest day.
You can get a refund, you'll probably get something even better if you explain that your campaining cost money and loss of earnings. (I think that may be blackmail or racketing or something...)
Just so you know I accept no liability if you do anything mentioned above. IANAL, AFAIK and GFDL.
Sure, well if somebody has space I can send them the images and write up a shot HOWTO and they can post it on their website to get slashdotted...
I only have the images for the first version, but that should get you into building a smaller compact version...
mail me at webhat {at} xs4all {dot} nl
Yes, somewhere in the house. I got the LCD from the local equivalent of Tandy or Radio Shack.
Do you know what the trick is to resolution, I could get it up to 3 feet wide and get a really grainy picture... So I made the picture a little out of focus, not so grainy and the eyes compensate slightly.
Read the other comment below, seems somebody has already build the overhead projector, minus the halogen light...
The first version was about 5 kilograms, made of stainless steel, and the size of a shoebox, but for the second one I found a little cheap projector, about the size of a publisher paperback (10x20x5cm) plastic so light weight.
The first version used 100 Watt lightbulbs, which is why I needed an extra cooler. I didn't have room to fit a low heat long life bulb in. Obviously it only ran on mains electricity.
The second version uses a far less powerful bulb, which means less quality, but for a 12v system what do you expect. I was interested to see they used leds, which is probably a smarter idea, but as I was building using spare parts and second hand gear I guess it would have been lucky to find a light source like that.
I have all the pictures, just never got round to writing a document about it.
The screen, as it was meant for a video camera which doesn't have a rotating screen, as most do now, so it had a S-video connector.
US$699, why?
I build a projector by taking a slide projector and one of those miniture lcd screens.
I broke the screen open, removed the backlight and mounted in the projector. Hey presto a new projector. Everything ran on 12v, so I could in principle attach it to batteries or car adapter.
Total cost
4x3 cm LCD screen $60
Second hand projector $10
Total $70
Ok, so the image isn't the best quality and I had to get an extra cooling fan for the screen, which cost me about $10. My next project is with a laptop screen and an overhead projector with a one of those builders halogen lights. Then I can watch my favorite tv program against the side of a building.
As I said I already own it, and I though it was so good that I bought it as presents for some of my friend. The first edition is handy and I keep it on my desk as a reference when man pages just don't cut it.
I also own an electronic version so I don't have to take it with me when I have to go out on a job.
If the second edition is as good as the first then I'd advise everybody to get a copy.
Is it just me, or does anybody else read PSP as Paint Shop Pro?
Sounds like you have family close by.
;)
Sadly not at the moment, I'm working in Switzerland while my family lives in the Netherlands, but as I'm back every weekend, courtesy of my employer I can still go over the people needing my help and go over and help them.
During the summer, when I'm in the Netherlands it will be about 2 meals a week of work, with the occasional printed t-shirt, psychodelic gear and painting... And lets not forget some piece of mind...
I do exactly the same, I'll only work on people's machines who have lost something very important: Masters thesis important. Or for people who use their computer to support themselves: selling their paintings, printed t-shirts, etc.
From student I'll ask for a meal, 'cause I'm too lazy to cook and otherwise I ask them for whatever they think I'm worth in whatever the product is they make.
I've gotten everything from t-shirts to 3' by 8' feet paintings, some have even given me the keys to their house/appartment so I can look after them and their computer while they are away, some huge places in there.
I've even worked for computer hardware that I then give to a non profit organization, who give me peace of mind. I also do work for the NPO, keeping there computers up so they can do there good works around the world.
And my family all pay me by cooking for me, we make a night of it, chatting and fixing.
I will work for almost anything, but rarely for money. Besides from my regular employer.
It's the old idea, I think my skills are worth something, you have no or little money, you give me something you do and I'll exchange it for something I do.
The best thing about it is that you don't pay tax over it.
In the Netherlands you can still reverse engineer, even if a EULA forbids it. Once you've paid for it it's yours to do with what you wish. If you want to stick it through a decompiler or examine the assembly you can.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I remember correctly the DMCA even provides for reverse engineering if it is for interoperability that the provider won't or can't provide. So if some provider of software doesn't and won't provide a feature it's in your right to create that feature. IANAL so don't take my word for it.
I can't wait for a virus writer to sue Norton or McAfee for DMCA violations. That would be fun.
It seems like everytime I read an article it's another social comentary on the structure of F/OSS, what's up with that?
;)
/. as the jibes about Will Wheaton in the story above.
It's strange how at one time the F/OSS community is a marginalized group under attack from every large company who thinks it's destroying their market share and now it's so important that everybody and their dog is writing about how wonderful the development structure is.
I'm not saying it's not wonderful, but I'm not saying it is either. Then again it seems that everybody and their dog is saying that too.
Oh, and on the comment: "I think that a democratic election is better than a dictatorship."
Is that a dig at Bush or a dig at Linus? Personally, and some research back me up on this, I think that dictatorships are sometimes needed to get the ball rolling. Then once the dictator gets too big for their boots and there's a revolt. In the case of Linus he elected deputies to help him with the leadership role.
Here's a quote I borrowed under the GFDL, from Wikipedia:
Edmund Burke:
"I cannot help concurring [e.g., with Aristotle, inter alios] that an absolute democracy, no more than an absolute monarchy, is not to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government. They think it rather the corruption and degeneracy than the sound constitution of a republic."
See now I'm a F/OSS social commentary writer too...
BTW, the original confusion, see subject, came from the fact that I didn't see the obligatory OSTG warning in the message, it's almost as important and as much a part of