I shave using an old fashioned cut-throat razor, and I can tell you now I wouldn't want to be doing that with a blade sharpened with a 1800 grit stone. I use a stone recommended by many fans of cut-throats, which is 8000 grit one side and 12000 on the other. That still leaves it with a rough edge, so once it is sharpened I use a horse leather strop to refine the edge until it is razor sharp and smooth.
You might want to reconsider what you think is a sharp knife.
Nobody wants to hire a kid who thinks he can hack and then gets caught. It shows you can't be trusted at any job where you might need to touch a computer, phone or money. Worse still, it shows you lack skills.
People want to hire the guys who performed the hacks and got away with it, not the ones who overestimated themselves and failed.
I have one going cheap here. It's just a copy of a pointer to a char which I am using globally in a multithreaded program with no semaphores or mutexs. It will probably work as long as you use it quick, and only read it's contents.
The PS3 already has the move controller - basically a microphone shaped device with several sensors in it that does a pretty good job of imitating a sword pommel. Gaffer tape a stick to the end of one of those and you have a sword made with tape, legacy controllers and a fucking stick!:p Seriously, it's do-able.
Given the log you posted, you are most definitely not being hit with a DoS attack. You are barely taking any traffic at all, with only a few hits / minute
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 54.249.0.5:80 Saturday, October 12,2013 12:04:31 [DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 81.22.107.179:56 Saturday, October 12,2013 11:46:15 [DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 81.22.107.179:56 Saturday, October 12,2013 11:43:49
I mean look at that...there's 21 minutes worth of time passing in just 3 log entries, that's just plain old net noise.
It's more likely that your ISP is suffering backhaul congestion, or you are running a torrent client, or someone is DLing ultra pr0n at some insane rate or you left your wi-fi open and someone is hijacking it.
After years of riding the feature wagon I am finally detoxing and going with the 'less is more' idiom. For me, a programmer and rare blogger, 98% of everything I ever need to write can be handled with either H1-H6 or markdown. I write my notes is Notepad++ using Markdown now, and paste them into my Wiki for storage and later retrieval. Blogs are knocked out with the most basic of HTML features.
I haven't had MS Turd installed for over a decade now and don't think I'm likely to ever need it again. The only outlying case for me is my CV, and I keep that in Open Office and export it to PDF for distribution.
Check your system *thoroughly* for malware - you might be a part of the zombie network i.e. your system is compromised and picking up orders from a master controller - then sending out spam, kiddie pr0n, and plans for 3d printed parts.
A good backdoor shouldn't overwhelm your network, but it's still worth checking.
I live in Australia, and our news service here is just about as awful, biased and pointless as yours. Each TV station has it's own 'news' show which purports to report on events, but coverage is almost entirely national or local. Most are then followed up for a 'current affairs' shows - which is TV speak for some crap filmed potentially months ago and targeted at pensioners.
During both the 'news' and the 'current affairs' all the channels will run segments on actors and tv shows owned either by their channel or the channel holding companies. There is also heavy coverage for anything relating to a main channel advertiser e.g. Harvey Norman.
A typical 30 minute broadcast breaks down like this:
Advertising Breaks - 8 mins Weather - 3 mins (seriously guys, there's an app for this!) Sport - 9 minutes Headlines - 2 minutes (all but 80% of this has been seen dozens of times already in the ad breaks) Celebrity - 1-2 minutes World news - under 1 minute Various national and local news - 6 mins
So, in a 30 minute show that is supposed to be providing you with news you get perhaps 7 minutes worth of low grade local or national stories.
I generally watch Al Jezeera, BBC, SBS and other world news programs if I want to see what's really happening in the world.
After the ZA has come and gone it's going to be Mad Max over here. I'll be cruising around with my bro in a 1973 Torana G-Pak (Canary Yellow with a thick black stripe) looking cool as fuck while you guys all drive around in your soccer mum crapboxes;p We all know how zombie movies go - the hero drives the best looking ride - everyone else ends up dead.
I guess you'd consider yourself a 'prepper' then? I used to watch 'Doomsday Preppers' and always got a chuckle out of the sort of things people were prepping against. While it is possible that Yellowstone Caldera will supererupt, the last one was 640,000 years ago - so I give you reasonable odds it won't happen in your lifetime or even the lifetime of humanity. It is true that it might erupt today due to being a fairly unpredicatable event, but it's far more true that it likely won't erupt for another 100,000 years.
Do you use extreme couponing to help stock your food supplies? This strikes me as the perfect mash-up - doomsday preppers + extreme couponers:D
I think you can trace most zombie moves back to the awesome film, 28 Days Later, which helped revive the whole zombie survival thing. 28 Days Later itself stood on the shoulders of the Romero zombie flicks. Even if you haven't seen the films, you really should watch the opening 20 minutes to see London deserted after the ZA.
Does it also come with the sort of cheap windows that any zombie can smash with their hands just by slapping against them a few times? How about an ignition that never works in the presence of danger? I like the way the storage is all open on the back tray of the truck, so if I want to get that shovel I better be prepared for a jump shot zombie attack!
Many years ago I had to write code to pull documents across an HTTP link using XML. The docs could be up to 10MB is size, though most were much smaller. I could grab several at a time each polling of the upstream server - up to 20.
Now, in C# or Java you might create a document class that could store the docs, and dispose of it after finishing. This could lead to heap exhaustion / GC / management as large amounts of memory were allocated and deallocated.
In C++ I simply made a buffer as large as the biggest document I wanted to deal with, and kept it in RAM the whole time. The buffer was overwritten many times a second as needed. Since it was always the same memory, there was no heap juggling required. The program ran so fast and smoothly that some financials accused us of cheating since we moved the data far faster then they did.
Sure, you could have written it in Java, but the GC would have taken a thrashing.
Cheap RAM means you can run bigger and faster C++ apps too you know, not just Java. C++/C will beat java in almost every test that counts because skilled C/C++ developers can write code that handles memory better than most GCs.
Sit back and watch this little Youtube gem. It shows the first Indiana Jones film side by side with shots from those serials and films that Spielberg watched when younger.
The opening scenes are pretty generic so I figured they'd have a much harder time with the iconic rolling boulder scene in the temple. That is...until I watched it.
There are a lot of reasons why films are bombing today; Poor scripts, tired old 'actors' with no real acting skill, and an excessive focus on big budget effects instead of giving the movie a soul. One reason not really getting a lot of coverage is the Twitter Effect.
Films used to rely heavily on opening weekend box office takings. The only information you had about a film and how decent it might be came from the previews shown at other films, advertising in papers, and promo spots on television. Film critics generally gave positive reviews of films mainly due to their columns appearing in newspapers carrying the advertising for the studios that made it.
Now we have completely independent reviewers able to tell us exactly what they thought of the film, and they can do it using their phones straight to Facebook and Twitter. Savy people will know even before the friday night premiere is over what their friends all thought of it and if it's worth seeing or they should just DL it.
People are also able to grab a screener copy more easily, then post reviews to sites like IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, etc - all well before the film opens in the cinemas. Thanks to those sites I can make a much more informed choice about how I spend my cash. Most times these days the decision is simply to not spend it.
Thirty years ago I would have just gone and seen the film if it looked remotely decent in the promo. Now, I need to know it's going to be worth the $22 my local cinema charges me before I walk in that door. Let's not even talk about popcorn and soda!
Go watch Primer. It cost $7,000 to make and knocks the socks off anything out of Hollywood in the last few years. You will need to watch it twice and even then you might not know who is doing what and when.
Ender's Game will be as awful as every other big budget movie that Hollywood churns out. They will dumb it down to the lowest common denominator in order to give it the widest appeal.
I'd like to see it made as a short film since it was originally a short story. I can't imagine the sort of awful padding they will add to make it 100 minutes long.
Soda comes out of a postmix machine and is diluted more in some places than others. Regardless, it generally awful everywhere. Open a nice fresh glass bottle of Coke and take a swig...now do the same for a postmix 'Coke' and you'll see they are worlds apart in quality. Postmix always tastes really watery and weirdly different to 'the real thing'.
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I shave using an old fashioned cut-throat razor, and I can tell you now I wouldn't want to be doing that with a blade sharpened with a 1800 grit stone. I use a stone recommended by many fans of cut-throats, which is 8000 grit one side and 12000 on the other. That still leaves it with a rough edge, so once it is sharpened I use a horse leather strop to refine the edge until it is razor sharp and smooth.
You might want to reconsider what you think is a sharp knife.
Nobody wants to hire a kid who thinks he can hack and then gets caught. It shows you can't be trusted at any job where you might need to touch a computer, phone or money. Worse still, it shows you lack skills.
People want to hire the guys who performed the hacks and got away with it, not the ones who overestimated themselves and failed.
I have one going cheap here. It's just a copy of a pointer to a char which I am using globally in a multithreaded program with no semaphores or mutexs. It will probably work as long as you use it quick, and only read it's contents.
Buying dark curtains would fix it.
At one time, talking about Echelon tagged you as a tinfoil hat wearing nerd...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
who's laughing now :D
The PS3 already has the move controller - basically a microphone shaped device with several sensors in it that does a pretty good job of imitating a sword pommel. Gaffer tape a stick to the end of one of those and you have a sword made with tape, legacy controllers and a fucking stick! :p Seriously, it's do-able.
Given the log you posted, you are most definitely not being hit with a DoS attack. You are barely taking any traffic at all, with only a few hits / minute
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 54.249.0.5:80 Saturday, October 12,2013 12:04:31
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 81.22.107.179:56 Saturday, October 12,2013 11:46:15
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 81.22.107.179:56 Saturday, October 12,2013 11:43:49
I mean look at that...there's 21 minutes worth of time passing in just 3 log entries, that's just plain old net noise.
It's more likely that your ISP is suffering backhaul congestion, or you are running a torrent client, or someone is DLing ultra pr0n at some insane rate or you left your wi-fi open and someone is hijacking it.
Go to http://www.speedtest.net/ and run a bandwidth check on your network.
After years of riding the feature wagon I am finally detoxing and going with the 'less is more' idiom. For me, a programmer and rare blogger, 98% of everything I ever need to write can be handled with either H1-H6 or markdown. I write my notes is Notepad++ using Markdown now, and paste them into my Wiki for storage and later retrieval. Blogs are knocked out with the most basic of HTML features.
I haven't had MS Turd installed for over a decade now and don't think I'm likely to ever need it again. The only outlying case for me is my CV, and I keep that in Open Office and export it to PDF for distribution.
Check your system *thoroughly* for malware - you might be a part of the zombie network i.e. your system is compromised and picking up orders from a master controller - then sending out spam, kiddie pr0n, and plans for 3d printed parts.
A good backdoor shouldn't overwhelm your network, but it's still worth checking.
I live in Australia, and our news service here is just about as awful, biased and pointless as yours. Each TV station has it's own 'news' show which purports to report on events, but coverage is almost entirely national or local. Most are then followed up for a 'current affairs' shows - which is TV speak for some crap filmed potentially months ago and targeted at pensioners.
During both the 'news' and the 'current affairs' all the channels will run segments on actors and tv shows owned either by their channel or the channel holding companies. There is also heavy coverage for anything relating to a main channel advertiser e.g. Harvey Norman.
A typical 30 minute broadcast breaks down like this:
Advertising Breaks - 8 mins
Weather - 3 mins (seriously guys, there's an app for this!)
Sport - 9 minutes
Headlines - 2 minutes (all but 80% of this has been seen dozens of times already in the ad breaks)
Celebrity - 1-2 minutes
World news - under 1 minute
Various national and local news - 6 mins
So, in a 30 minute show that is supposed to be providing you with news you get perhaps 7 minutes worth of low grade local or national stories.
I generally watch Al Jezeera, BBC, SBS and other world news programs if I want to see what's really happening in the world.
Page three is the one you're after ^^
After the ZA has come and gone it's going to be Mad Max over here. I'll be cruising around with my bro in a 1973 Torana G-Pak (Canary Yellow with a thick black stripe) looking cool as fuck while you guys all drive around in your soccer mum crapboxes ;p We all know how zombie movies go - the hero drives the best looking ride - everyone else ends up dead.
I guess you'd consider yourself a 'prepper' then? I used to watch 'Doomsday Preppers' and always got a chuckle out of the sort of things people were prepping against. While it is possible that Yellowstone Caldera will supererupt, the last one was 640,000 years ago - so I give you reasonable odds it won't happen in your lifetime or even the lifetime of humanity. It is true that it might erupt today due to being a fairly unpredicatable event, but it's far more true that it likely won't erupt for another 100,000 years.
Do you use extreme couponing to help stock your food supplies? This strikes me as the perfect mash-up - doomsday preppers + extreme couponers :D
I think you can trace most zombie moves back to the awesome film, 28 Days Later, which helped revive the whole zombie survival thing. 28 Days Later itself stood on the shoulders of the Romero zombie flicks. Even if you haven't seen the films, you really should watch the opening 20 minutes to see London deserted after the ZA.
Zombie is a hate word, we prefer to be called 'The Infected'!
Does it also come with the sort of cheap windows that any zombie can smash with their hands just by slapping against them a few times? How about an ignition that never works in the presence of danger? I like the way the storage is all open on the back tray of the truck, so if I want to get that shovel I better be prepared for a jump shot zombie attack!
I'll give a concrete example.
Many years ago I had to write code to pull documents across an HTTP link using XML. The docs could be up to 10MB is size, though most were much smaller. I could grab several at a time each polling of the upstream server - up to 20.
Now, in C# or Java you might create a document class that could store the docs, and dispose of it after finishing. This could lead to heap exhaustion / GC / management as large amounts of memory were allocated and deallocated.
In C++ I simply made a buffer as large as the biggest document I wanted to deal with, and kept it in RAM the whole time. The buffer was overwritten many times a second as needed. Since it was always the same memory, there was no heap juggling required. The program ran so fast and smoothly that some financials accused us of cheating since we moved the data far faster then they did.
Sure, you could have written it in Java, but the GC would have taken a thrashing.
Cheap RAM means you can run bigger and faster C++ apps too you know, not just Java. C++/C will beat java in almost every test that counts because skilled C/C++ developers can write code that handles memory better than most GCs.
Good code doesn't ever leak any memory. Leaking 4gb / hour would be atrocious code! Learn to use code profilers.
...it all makes sense. I still wish you would all die in a fire, but at least not I know why.
Sit back and watch this little Youtube gem. It shows the first Indiana Jones film side by side with shots from those serials and films that Spielberg watched when younger.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns8bG9AbfwM
The opening scenes are pretty generic so I figured they'd have a much harder time with the iconic rolling boulder scene in the temple. That is...until I watched it.
There are a lot of reasons why films are bombing today; Poor scripts, tired old 'actors' with no real acting skill, and an excessive focus on big budget effects instead of giving the movie a soul. One reason not really getting a lot of coverage is the Twitter Effect.
Films used to rely heavily on opening weekend box office takings. The only information you had about a film and how decent it might be came from the previews shown at other films, advertising in papers, and promo spots on television. Film critics generally gave positive reviews of films mainly due to their columns appearing in newspapers carrying the advertising for the studios that made it.
Now we have completely independent reviewers able to tell us exactly what they thought of the film, and they can do it using their phones straight to Facebook and Twitter. Savy people will know even before the friday night premiere is over what their friends all thought of it and if it's worth seeing or they should just DL it.
People are also able to grab a screener copy more easily, then post reviews to sites like IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, etc - all well before the film opens in the cinemas. Thanks to those sites I can make a much more informed choice about how I spend my cash. Most times these days the decision is simply to not spend it.
Thirty years ago I would have just gone and seen the film if it looked remotely decent in the promo. Now, I need to know it's going to be worth the $22 my local cinema charges me before I walk in that door. Let's not even talk about popcorn and soda!
Go watch Primer. It cost $7,000 to make and knocks the socks off anything out of Hollywood in the last few years. You will need to watch it twice and even then you might not know who is doing what and when.
Ender's Game will be as awful as every other big budget movie that Hollywood churns out. They will dumb it down to the lowest common denominator in order to give it the widest appeal.
I'd like to see it made as a short film since it was originally a short story. I can't imagine the sort of awful padding they will add to make it 100 minutes long.
Soda comes out of a postmix machine and is diluted more in some places than others. Regardless, it generally awful everywhere. Open a nice fresh glass bottle of Coke and take a swig...now do the same for a postmix 'Coke' and you'll see they are worlds apart in quality. Postmix always tastes really watery and weirdly different to 'the real thing'.