Similarly, but I now have 10GB (211 CDs) having gone through my back catalogue. I'm sure others have larger collections, but the point is that not all MP3s are pirated.
Out of those 2586 MP3s, I ripped them all from my personal CD except for Laundry Service as I got the crippled version without realising it. Unfortunately, this was bought in a supermarket 500 miles from my home, so returning it wasn't easy, particularly as I broke my ankle between purchase and realising it was crippled and I had other things on my mind...
Turns out that the enhanced CD is rippable, so I ripped my flatmate's version.
The point of this? Well, I have over 2500 valid MP3 tracks and if any of those get removed by the RIAA or their minions, I am not going to be amused...
At my previous job at a university, we had to create about 300-400 accounts a year. What used to happen was that the username/password list was FTP'd to a PC and mailmerged in Word to print out "here is your username and password" sheets. This was very intensive and very annoying as you had to remember how to use mailmerge every September and get it to play nice.
I rewrote all the user creation scripts while I was there to make it easier to work with and part of that was a perl script to create a LaTeX file (OK, not strictly TeX...) and print it to a laser printer. Made life so much easier to simply run./print.pl class.out rather than the FTP/mailmerge/print.
As far as I know, they still use the scripts for user creation; I certainly doubt they've rewritten them.
You want to be able to control your robots without trailing wires and receive telemetry/feedback; why not use consumer technology (Wifi) which is becoming standard on laptops and becoming more common? Given the choice would you rather (a) install a Wifi hub in your home to control robots which can also be used as a computing network or (b) install something proprietary (IR? some form of radio?) which is incompatible with you PC?
As for linux, well, you can strip it down and work with it a lot more easily than windows, I'd imagine, so it's a natural choice. The open source nature is also ideal for research.
It depends what you're doing, I guess; if any of the tasks are time-critical (i.e. missing a command by a few milliseconds is a problem) then you want RT linux. It may well be that the time tolerances are such that you don't care about a few ms here and there.
RT operating systems (whether linux or something else) will always have a place in certain tasks. It says something for linux that it can be modified to suit different tasks.
Well, you can get it as part of the country kit for a Sun workstation. Online, it's priced at £37.12 (about $50). This will also give you a USB keyboard and a power lead.
I used to work at a University where the computing department had its own Novell infrastructure. Eventually we wound up joining the NDS tree (Novell's equivalent of AD, predating it by several years) of the university under some pretty clear guidelines that we wanted full control over our "branch" of the tree.
It solved a lot of problems (users coming to our labs, our users going to other departments) and wound up being worth the hassle.
You will find cases where having a group-wide tree is more useful than having the full, exclusive control you might get from a seperate AD tree, so join them. I'm not sure exactly how to join as it's been about 3 years since I looked at AD forests & trees, so I'll let others guide that.
And how do you do that when you can't use Start/Run or open a command prompt? It is possible to lock down settings fairly heavily on NT/2000 to disallow running random programs. I'm not 100% sure how they handle removable media (floppy/CD/USB pen).
BTW, any supposedly locked down system that allows writing in C:\ isn't locked down enough.
Yes, it would be very nice but very difficult to implement given Apache's model and how that runs under Unix.
Essentially, by the time you've figured out which vhost the client is requesting, you're bound to a specific httpd process which normally runs as www/nobody or whatever you've configured it as. As those users cannot setuid to the RunAsUser, you can't modify the uid/euid at that stage, only root can do that and you don't want root handling that part of the negotiation!
The alternative is to run with different config files binding to different IPs or ports and run multiple versions of Apache at the same time, but that loses you some advantages of load balancing between virtual hosts.
Something like a proper trusted base allowing a user (www) to setuid to other users (vhost1, vhost1 etc) but that requires a version of Unix that supports it; dunno if Trusted Solaris, OpenBSD or SELinux supply that functionality or not.
I can't remember where I heard it, but comment was made that the war on Iraq would create "100 Osama bin Ladens". That may be an exaggeration, but Iraq in a few months' time will be a fairly good recruitment arena for Al Qaeda as they'll talk up the civilian bombings and killings and find plenty people who have reason to hate America.
Why do so many hate America? Because America is far too keen on pushing it's views down everyone else's throats and bombing/threatening anyone who doesn't agree with them. Essentially you're right; it is your foreign policy.
Netscape used to have a roaming feature whereby you could store preferences either on a Netscape web server (Apache had a module to do the same) or on LDAP. This hasn't made it into Mozilla yet.
As for address books, that's something else LDAP could be used for.
Well, it probably didn't harm it. People have an urge to find out what "they" don't want you to see. The preface of "Stupid White Men" in the UK tells how Michael Moore asked to be able to read from it as the publishers at the time wouldn't print it. The people there were eager to find out what was so bad that it had effectively been banned by the publisher.
I started using IMAP for this; I have a PC at home which does my ADSL dialup & acts as router/firewall box using NAT for my other computers. I copied all my mail to the server's IMAP folders and now I can access mail from Windows or linux equally well. Added to this, IMP means I can use mail anywhere with an SSL web browser!
As for shared FAT32 drive, can't you mount the FAT32 in linux and symlink the mail folders directory in linux to the location on the windows drive? Never tried it, but it should be possible...
Correct, some data (strings are a notable one, as they commonly only take 8 (ASCII) or 16 (Unicode) bits) doesn't automatically increase in size. However, some data does end up being stored at native length (i.e. whatever the CPU supports) once it gets into the CPU. At the very least, if you start popping register data onto the stack, you'll have to pop more data in a 64-bit CPU.
It's actually fairly true. If you move to 64-bit computing, registers take up twice as much space, as do some instructions. As a result, you need more memory to cope with the increase in space required. It's not always a doubling; experiences with SPARC (it can run 32-bit & 64-bit natively on the same CPU with backward compatibility to 32-bit programs) show there is an increased memory requirement for running processes.
People might say that memory is cheap right now, but that's not the problem; the main limitation is the L2 cache; if the core of the process increases in size sufficiently to be larger than cache sizes, performance will suffer. This is partly why Intel is ramping up the L2 cache on Itanium 2; it needs it to keep performance up. The other reason is that it needs to compete with SPARC, Power-4 and PA-RISC in the server space which all have at least 4MB L2 cache, with 8MB being common. IIRC, newer PA-RISC CPUs have 32MB L2 cache (although they are dual-core, so it's really more like 16MB/CPU).
Fact is, most normal users aren't pushing the envelope of 32-bit computing yet, so consumers don't need 64-bit. It is desperately needed in scientific computing & servers where the 4GB hard limit is becoming a problem, but these are not "normal" users.
Personally, I'll go to 64-bit (well, other than the Ultra 30 I have) when it's a good idea for me to do so, either because I need the extra address space (unlikely in the short term; I'm hardly using my 768MB at the moment) or the price/performance is right.
DDR is getting somewhat overloaded; the old meaning was "Deutsche Demokratische Republik" (East Germany). Sisters of Mercy used that in "Dominion/Mother Russia" (A Kino runner for the DDR) which now always makes me think of Dance Dance Revolution...
This is the problem of a system which was designed in a different environment. Much of the protocols in use on the internet were designed in a nice "fluffy" world where only the elite (not l337) were allowed in; computing scientists, some universities and the like.
Now that world + dog is online, we have all sorts of ne'er do wells screwing around in there, causing all sorts of trouble.
I'm pretty sure that the internet would not be designed as it is, given hindsight; there are just too many ways to screw things up, including the simple things like spoofed headers in email.
Here, there are a number of contractor which work through an agency. The contractor fills in a time sheet for hours worked & gets it signed by the company being worked for. The agency pays the worker through normal procedures (including deducting tax at source) and bills the company for the pay + a "management fee"; I think mine charges the company 3% or thereabouts.
Some will also provide pensions/holiday pay, but I've been happy working with the concept that I get paid for what I work. It makes for some lean times (e.g. Christmas) and some gluts (I've done a 7 day week before) but effectively balances out.
It's a simple way of working, as you count as a normal employee in most ways which simplifies tax.
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Both games have the shock factor of beasties jumping out of darkened corners/walls and scaring the bejeezus out of you.
Similarly, but I now have 10GB (211 CDs) having gone through my back catalogue. I'm sure others have larger collections, but the point is that not all MP3s are pirated.
% find /data1/mp3 -name '*mp3' | wc -l
2586
Out of those 2586 MP3s, I ripped them all from my personal CD except for Laundry Service as I got the crippled version without realising it. Unfortunately, this was bought in a supermarket 500 miles from my home, so returning it wasn't easy, particularly as I broke my ankle between purchase and realising it was crippled and I had other things on my mind...
Turns out that the enhanced CD is rippable, so I ripped my flatmate's version.
The point of this? Well, I have over 2500 valid MP3 tracks and if any of those get removed by the RIAA or their minions, I am not going to be amused...
Well, it's here in the UK as well, FWIW.
I rewrote all the user creation scripts while I was there to make it easier to work with and part of that was a perl script to create a LaTeX file (OK, not strictly TeX...) and print it to a laser printer. Made life so much easier to simply run ./print.pl class.out rather than the FTP/mailmerge/print.
As far as I know, they still use the scripts for user creation; I certainly doubt they've rewritten them.
As for linux, well, you can strip it down and work with it a lot more easily than windows, I'd imagine, so it's a natural choice. The open source nature is also ideal for research.
RT operating systems (whether linux or something else) will always have a place in certain tasks. It says something for linux that it can be modified to suit different tasks.
eBay might be a better option.
It solved a lot of problems (users coming to our labs, our users going to other departments) and wound up being worth the hassle.
You will find cases where having a group-wide tree is more useful than having the full, exclusive control you might get from a seperate AD tree, so join them. I'm not sure exactly how to join as it's been about 3 years since I looked at AD forests & trees, so I'll let others guide that.
BTW, any supposedly locked down system that allows writing in C:\ isn't locked down enough.
Essentially, by the time you've figured out which vhost the client is requesting, you're bound to a specific httpd process which normally runs as www/nobody or whatever you've configured it as. As those users cannot setuid to the RunAsUser, you can't modify the uid/euid at that stage, only root can do that and you don't want root handling that part of the negotiation!
The alternative is to run with different config files binding to different IPs or ports and run multiple versions of Apache at the same time, but that loses you some advantages of load balancing between virtual hosts.
Something like a proper trusted base allowing a user (www) to setuid to other users (vhost1, vhost1 etc) but that requires a version of Unix that supports it; dunno if Trusted Solaris, OpenBSD or SELinux supply that functionality or not.
Why do so many hate America? Because America is far too keen on pushing it's views down everyone else's throats and bombing/threatening anyone who doesn't agree with them. Essentially you're right; it is your foreign policy.
Last I checked (November), he was still being held in solitary and had been denied access to a lawyer.
It stinks, just like camp X-Ray. This "enemy combatent" crap is just an excuse to lock up anyone they don't like the look of.
There's a saying: "90% of the work take 90% of the time, the remaining 10% takes the other 90%". Yes, this doesn't add up, that's the whole point...
Yup, exactly; even the displacement link shows that Apache has had dominance since early-mid '96 where it displaced NCSA HTTP server.
As for address books, that's something else LDAP could be used for.
Well, it probably didn't harm it. People have an urge to find out what "they" don't want you to see. The preface of "Stupid White Men" in the UK tells how Michael Moore asked to be able to read from it as the publishers at the time wouldn't print it. The people there were eager to find out what was so bad that it had effectively been banned by the publisher.
As for shared FAT32 drive, can't you mount the FAT32 in linux and symlink the mail folders directory in linux to the location on the windows drive? Never tried it, but it should be possible...
Correct, some data (strings are a notable one, as they commonly only take 8 (ASCII) or 16 (Unicode) bits) doesn't automatically increase in size. However, some data does end up being stored at native length (i.e. whatever the CPU supports) once it gets into the CPU. At the very least, if you start popping register data onto the stack, you'll have to pop more data in a 64-bit CPU.
People might say that memory is cheap right now, but that's not the problem; the main limitation is the L2 cache; if the core of the process increases in size sufficiently to be larger than cache sizes, performance will suffer. This is partly why Intel is ramping up the L2 cache on Itanium 2; it needs it to keep performance up. The other reason is that it needs to compete with SPARC, Power-4 and PA-RISC in the server space which all have at least 4MB L2 cache, with 8MB being common. IIRC, newer PA-RISC CPUs have 32MB L2 cache (although they are dual-core, so it's really more like 16MB/CPU).
Fact is, most normal users aren't pushing the envelope of 32-bit computing yet, so consumers don't need 64-bit. It is desperately needed in scientific computing & servers where the 4GB hard limit is becoming a problem, but these are not "normal" users.
Personally, I'll go to 64-bit (well, other than the Ultra 30 I have) when it's a good idea for me to do so, either because I need the extra address space (unlikely in the short term; I'm hardly using my 768MB at the moment) or the price/performance is right.
Strange the way these things work out...
Bah, nostalgia was better in my day...
Now that world + dog is online, we have all sorts of ne'er do wells screwing around in there, causing all sorts of trouble.
I'm pretty sure that the internet would not be designed as it is, given hindsight; there are just too many ways to screw things up, including the simple things like spoofed headers in email.
No you don't. You just like the video.
Some will also provide pensions/holiday pay, but I've been happy working with the concept that I get paid for what I work. It makes for some lean times (e.g. Christmas) and some gluts (I've done a 7 day week before) but effectively balances out.
It's a simple way of working, as you count as a normal employee in most ways which simplifies tax.