is one I'd have to add to the list. Much anguish was had from that design, and sometimes the keyboard PCB would flex in a way so that pressing Return or another adjacent key would actually reset!
Note- anything over 2.6 days of downtime per year is over 1% of your time.
Also to me supporting 5 people would be easy, supporting 30 is about as difficult as supporting 60-100.
There are many things that soak up time to consider and limiting your time and service level only makes you look bad to your users and later your boss. Even if it is something you have little to do with, the responsibility becomes yours.
You'll be a desktop support/sysadmin, so consider these situations-
All your dells were purchased 2 years ago at the same time.
One week at 11am 2 of the mobos go FOOF! within 2 days of each other for no reason. Just like light bulbs. Blame ensues, but they're technical ppl so more blame ensues and then dies off. -You will catch a little blame for this, so $.02 in your blame bank.
You drop your project and spring into action! Now 3 programmers are doing 0 hrs of programming.
Your boss is cheap but wise and a good listener, so you have at least 1 backup machine at the ready to toss in right? Didn't think so.
Ok so resolve the problem. (1) Pick up the phone and call the mfgr for a few (million) hours, find all of the paperwork that was gleefully thrown away after the box was opened, and wait 1-10 days for a new mobo. (2) Or go shopping for a new one, or (3) buy 2 new computers.
(1) the mobo you receive looks similar but different! Driver and backup fun for you!
(2) the mobo you get is different, with different allignment holes and the port plate covers 1 set of USB ports and doesn't quite align with the lan port. This is noticed by other staff and more is deposited in the blame bank. You plug in the mobo and nothing happens except some sort of crackle. it seems dell switched the +5 and ground or something, so more phone calls ahead. Driver hunt ahead, and although you're making a good effort, the pressure is mounting and yes- more in the blamebank.
(3) boss has best buy ad to help save the (budget) day and you are charged with bringing in 2 eMachines! Oh won't you be popular! Also user hears new computer is coming and wants whatever is hyped like alienware or somthing with a $9k graphics card and will begin the beg-a-thon. Even if that doens't happen you'll spend a lot of time getting everything set up- ripping out the crappy software from a store box or ideally fresh installing, SP's/updates installed, many reboots, network config, security, etc. You probably don't have ghost deployed or a usable / up to date scripted install or the other countless toys that we rely on but the books don't tend to cover.
Oh.. You installed That _before_ This? eww. start over bud. It's mentioned in paragraph 90 of that readme. no, the updated one on the site.
You'll get to hear pleasent things like 'Is that machine done YET?' and 'Are you sure you know what you're doing cause it's taking a long time and I just plugged in mine and it worked at home!' 'Shouldn't this only take you a few minutes?' 'I need realplayer fixed before lunch'.
Ok so after 1-2 days everyone is happy again. Boss will always be cocked about 48 hrs of lost time. 2 days later one of the lcd screens dies on the system you replaced. You have 0.6 days left this year for sysadmin time. That doesn't usualy cover the printer que issues for the administrative staff.
So- backups. are you ever going be testing them or just crossing fingers? How many hrs/year will handling them take? over 4.8?
Everyone discovers a new streaming radio station! although your staff knows better they kill enough bandwidth for the boss to notice. You are the enforcer, and may be charged with making sure that it never happens again!
Tech skool programmer has managed to install citrix or vnc or a vpn. You give the security talk. You haven't got a clue what may have left or entered your network.
Boss sez- I keep getting this spam! fix it! you do. 2 weeks later 'i thought you fixed it!'
Many of them have extra tanks. The encad linked above has 8 500mL tanks, each tank runs $40 - $120 (yup! $0.08 per mL!). The actual printheads are replacable and look very similar to the old classic HP inkjet cartidge filled with foam and a hose on the top where the refill nib is.
The cool thing about these systems are that you can keep an extra tank to automatically switch to when one is dry, or you can switch easily between different inks for different purposes -outdoor/ uv resistant inks, archival, etc.
That book was great for all novice skill levels. It helped me teach basic electronics to several people.
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I second that.
Hackers is my most loaned and most re-purchased book- which was a bitch when it was out of print for a few years. Once it cost me $128.00 from a univ. library (paperback edition!) after a friend borrowed it from me and didn't return it.
I was probably in 5th grade when the book came out and I got my first copy. At that age it gave me a lot support and confirmation that hackers (who were getting tons of bad press) were not all about BomBZ and crashing systems and such and most were more interested in exploring and understanding.
If you plan on using projectors- the pro's will recommend you pick the projector, then design the room around it- screen/ projector placement, seating, etc. Nobody wants to have sit through the meeting of the future with 3000 lumens in their eye or the shadow of your PHB's assistant's hairdo blocking the lower left of the screen.
Also talk to a lighting designer (theater or architectural) for good ideas to light the tables & video subjects subtly.
Don't get a webcam. Get a real video camera and use a capture device. The sound and video produced will be way better than any webcam, and you won't really have to worry about drivers and such. They are very adaptable in varying light and motion conditions and cheap dv camera will be so much cheaper.
I've seen every brand fail but none so often as the WD 100 and 120 gb drives (90% failure 1yr. all cache sizes) for such a wide variety of reasons. I've never really liked WD over the years for many reasons but would buy them on occasion because of the specs/price and then re-promise myself to boycott them for another 5 years before trying again. With the quantum bigfoots I had a similar failure percentage as you had. With deathstars I should have bought lottery tickets when i picked them up. I've had 2/75 fail (60-120gb) total luck.
So here's my totally anecdotal list of drives/brands i'd rather not see again:
microSci micropolis syquest 135mb syquest 88 Western Digital (all so far) quantum bigfoot Hardcards maxtor 300 (5400) zip 100 &jaz 1gb most drives from maxtor before they bought quantum whatever comes at the bottom price list of pricewatch.
You could probably use someone with good path (trace) repair/rework skills. Good ones are like surgeons, and are rarely paid much, so an offer of say $60-$100 would probably get the job done to perfection (better than new). You'll find these people wherever circuitry is being mfgr'd/tested -find the plant and meet them outside during a smoke brake/ popular lunch break spot or something. SMT path repair & rework equipment is really expensive but it gets the job done right without all the esd damage and radioshaftiness that others are suggesting you gamble with. If your data wasn't important and $600 is nothing to you, then i'd say buy some used smt soldering equipment from ebay, use some extra cards with smt chips and connectors to practice soldering on, have your test work checked by someone who knows what good circuit soldering is, buy the 16mb version of your drive and practice on it, then cross your fingers and try it for real.
I thought the same on sdi as you until I ran across a few declassified items in the clinton era.
SDI still exists! Tech for it was still being developed & pitched at a time when it had no noticable public support/funding! I ran across quite a few real badass technologies, demos, and proposals. Everything I saw was done by the big aerospace/military companies. In the same breath I can't assume much has trickled out of these companies yet but i'm sure their funding is back in spades.
IIRC, plenum cable does give off quite nasty toxic fumes when when subjected to flame but is more fire retardant and self extinguishing and I believe the gases are less flamable as well. This property is desired expecially in cable going through multiple floors where a cat5 'fuse' could circumvent all the other fire protection.
I've seen *many* smart and logical people get sucked into the work vortex never to fully return to school- usually with regrets. Myself included.
Many of them also took time off later in college with only a year or less to go. Same reasons- burnout, 'gain more focus', explore, etc.
Most people don't know what they really want to do and change their majors several times. It's really common and once you're in you'll connect with people studying some very interesting things that you probably haven't been exposed to yet.
Keep in mind the university isn't the real world. When you lean toward a field of study that leads directly to a career -investigate that career before going too far into the major! Don't trust the university to show you the real world version.
For instance, architecture/arch engineering. In the university it draws many to the program and encourages / demands artistic expression. you get to sculpt and engineer! great! Walk out with a diploma with the zeal to build futuristic cities. Join the best architectue firm you can. be a CAD slave for 20-45 years drafting someone elses crappy designs from their napkins and then maybe when you're grey you can take over and do your own design, but then realize 90% of the 'design' is mosly just a million warehouses with a cheap facade stapled on to it. This happened to 3 of my friends who didn't check out the actual career first. The 4th one did an internship and talked with every architect he could early on. He kept studying architecture because he liked it, but changed majors. He also wasn't too thrilled with the 'culture' of architects. The other 3 are kinda bitter about the whole thing.
Go to school, travel next summer. It's really not that long from now. Get a part time job if you need to, in fact definatley get a part time job if you can swing it. It can help keep you grounded from some of the academia glaze.
IMHO Monster cables aren't worth it. I've also seen many forums echoing the same. They're gimmicky and luxury priced, and I've been annoyed before with the extra girth of some of their connectors. I have little doubt that they are over all high quality cables though and I've had them fail like any other cables too. I cackled when I saw monster cables for xbox for $50.
That being said, I'd go shop where broadcast people shop for such things, since their quality requirements are much more stringent than circuit city's offerings.
I found these guys a few years ago (their catalog is yummy):
Neither is Belkin. I personally don't like most of belkin's products, and often have found that they're just cheap rebranded stuff, usually overpriced and caused me much pain and woe. Also I always suspected Belkin's name was selected to be confusable with a far superior cable maker, Belden (which also happens to be carried by markertek).
It helped a lot and might be an interim step for people who are not severely shakey. The mouse was way too jumpy for them though even at low sensitivity.
2 years ago- Worst tech support experience I've consistantly had was with rimage and it lasted over 1 month!! All I was trying to do was replace a broken drive they had assured me was standard way back in the presale days. They had no replacements, wanted me to buy a new unit at $6k. My old software which was great in its earlier days had gone through some 'improvements' post veritas buyout and wasn't working anymore. Rimage had a new $$product that was supposed to replace all these features and more. I demoed it all and it was horridly inefficient- IIRC- 4 cd-r's took 3 hrs to make 4 cds, nevermind the crashes. The old unit with 4x drives was much faster. Then they too told me nobody actually uses this out of the box, they just buy the dev kit and customize it. Then they recommended I do the same for my team of developers. Sounds like a handy tech center stock answer. Guess what. I dont have a team of developers! I suggested they use their team of developers to make their own stuff work as advertised.
After much strife they finally provided me with someone at another company who could provide me with a copy of their customized firmware so i could replace my drives with identical ones. The robotics finally gave up the ghost a year later.
My replacement for it was from a less known company handled through discmakers. Discjuggler runs it with a special autoloader product called imagejuggler which works very nicely (you can also use DJ.NET and they have a web interface too. They could improve a few things but all in all robotics are top notch and simple, no weird firmware, replacable (upgradable!) drives (as long as your burning app supports it, which dj handles many) and I can easily burn different images simultaneously. Furthermore both discmakers and DJ support was great.
So there is enough buzz to stop using MD5 in several situations at least.
It's a shame because there are so many great tools that many people have made that are now a few shades away from dust but that's how the security game goes.
I run into situations where I've used MD5 to uniquely ID/fingerprint/tamperproof document images used in legal cases, so although the chances seem very slim that the md5 problems would be exploited in this instance- it's no longer something i can ever use again.
So what can now fill MD5's shoes?
What's also likely to be the most popular replacement?
Thanks!
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Something I rarely see explored in the blogs VS 'regular media' debate is the role that the shelf life and interactivity of stories both play.
The usual media outlets are fire and forget stream without any chance critique and within the next 4-24 hours will be another barage.
News on blogs can last a very long time, propogate, be critiqued, and draw lots of fans, foes, and wholy other points of view. The story might be complete bunk but looking at it as a whole, valuable things can be found.
I haven't really seen the issue of the longevity of stories brought up in the whole debate but I think it's near the heart of the argument.
Do I think bloggers are journalists? You bet- and their quality varies just like the others.
In the middle of the debate there seems to be lots of allegations from mainstream media talking about journalistic integrity, bloggers not having the resources to truly produce news,lack of 'real editors' and rewriting stories without much disgression. I'd love to see mainstream news without access to things like the AP, lexis/nexis, or other news services for a month.
I'd also love to see the news show joe public how they do make the news and what truly differenciates their news from a bloggers. All I've really seen lately is a lot of fire and forget allegations.
Boeing, Learjet, Cesna/Raytheon, YingLing, and many smaller aircraft manufacturers are not far away in Wichita and I expect there was a lot of excitement.
A total guess on my part is the common weather pattern east of the rockies might have something to do with it.
Slashdot Mirror
Someday all the sockets in my house will be replaced with them.
And I will play Jungle Hunt from the garage ceiling plugs.
is one I'd have to add to the list. Much anguish was had from that design, and sometimes the keyboard PCB would flex in a way so that pressing Return or another adjacent key would actually reset!
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/apple2fpga/Apple-II-Guts.jpg
sharing experiences like this is one of the reasons I still love slashdot.
Thanks golodh
"The article also reveals which broadband and dial-up services make the grade and which fall flat."
"Something MAY kill your Childrun soon! find out after this break!"
" Will you need tire chains tomorrow? Stay tuned!"
"Find out at 10 which email may make your penis bigger! and which could make it turn inside out!"
Eds, please don't allow crap teaser intro's like this anymore.
*sigh*
Sysadmin here.
Note- anything over 2.6 days of downtime per year is over 1% of your time.
Also to me supporting 5 people would be easy, supporting 30 is about as difficult as supporting 60-100.
There are many things that soak up time to consider and limiting your time and service level only makes you look bad to your users and later your boss. Even if it is something you have little to do with, the responsibility becomes yours.
You'll be a desktop support/sysadmin, so consider these situations-
All your dells were purchased 2 years ago at the same time.
One week at 11am 2 of the mobos go FOOF! within 2 days of each other for no reason. Just like light bulbs. Blame ensues, but they're technical ppl so more blame ensues and then dies off. -You will catch a little blame for this, so $.02 in your blame bank.
You drop your project and spring into action! Now 3 programmers are doing 0 hrs of programming.
Your boss is cheap but wise and a good listener, so you have at least 1 backup machine at the ready to toss in right? Didn't think so.
Ok so resolve the problem. (1) Pick up the phone and call the mfgr for a few (million) hours, find all of the paperwork that was gleefully thrown away after the box was opened, and wait 1-10 days for a new mobo. (2) Or go shopping for a new one, or (3) buy 2 new computers.
(1) the mobo you receive looks similar but different! Driver and backup fun for you!
(2) the mobo you get is different, with different allignment holes and the port plate covers 1 set of USB ports and doesn't quite align with the lan port. This is noticed by other staff and more is deposited in the blame bank. You plug in the mobo and nothing happens except some sort of crackle. it seems dell switched the +5 and ground or something, so more phone calls ahead. Driver hunt ahead, and although you're making a good effort, the pressure is mounting and yes- more in the blamebank.
(3) boss has best buy ad to help save the (budget) day and you are charged with bringing in 2 eMachines! Oh won't you be popular!
Also user hears new computer is coming and wants whatever is hyped like alienware or somthing with a $9k graphics card and will begin the beg-a-thon.
Even if that doens't happen you'll spend a lot of time getting everything set up- ripping out the crappy software from a store box or ideally fresh installing, SP's/updates installed, many reboots, network config, security, etc. You probably don't have ghost deployed or a usable / up to date scripted install or the other countless toys that we rely on but the books don't tend to cover.
Oh.. You installed That _before_ This? eww. start over bud. It's mentioned in paragraph 90 of that readme. no, the updated one on the site.
You'll get to hear pleasent things like 'Is that machine done YET?' and 'Are you sure you know what you're doing cause it's taking a long time and I just plugged in mine and it worked at home!' 'Shouldn't this only take you a few minutes?' 'I need realplayer fixed before lunch'.
Ok so after 1-2 days everyone is happy again. Boss will always be cocked about 48 hrs of lost time. 2 days later one of the lcd screens dies on the system you replaced. You have 0.6 days left this year for sysadmin time. That doesn't usualy cover the printer que issues for the administrative staff.
So- backups. are you ever going be testing them or just crossing fingers? How many hrs/year will handling them take? over 4.8?
Everyone discovers a new streaming radio station! although your staff knows better they kill enough bandwidth for the boss to notice. You are the enforcer, and may be charged with making sure that it never happens again!
Tech skool programmer has managed to install citrix or vnc or a vpn. You give the security talk. You haven't got a clue what may have left or entered your network.
Boss sez- I keep getting this spam! fix it! you do. 2 weeks later 'i thought you fixed it!'
The network goes
http://novajet1000i.encad.com/?s=1332&c=opp04
Many of them have extra tanks. The encad linked above has 8 500mL tanks, each tank runs $40 - $120 (yup! $0.08 per mL!). The actual printheads are replacable and look very similar to the old classic HP inkjet cartidge filled with foam and a hose on the top where the refill nib is.
The cool thing about these systems are that you can keep an extra tank to automatically switch to when one is dry, or you can switch easily between different inks for different purposes -outdoor/ uv resistant inks, archival, etc.
Second that!
That book was great for all novice skill levels. It helped me teach basic electronics to several people.
I second that.
Hackers is my most loaned and most re-purchased book- which was a bitch when it was out of print for a few years. Once it cost me $128.00 from a univ. library (paperback edition!) after a friend borrowed it from me and didn't return it.
I was probably in 5th grade when the book came out and I got my first copy. At that age it gave me a lot support and confirmation that hackers (who were getting tons of bad press) were not all about BomBZ and crashing systems and such and most were more interested in exploring and understanding.
If you plan on using projectors- the pro's will recommend you pick the projector, then design the room around it- screen/ projector placement, seating, etc. Nobody wants to have sit through the meeting of the future with 3000 lumens in their eye or the shadow of your PHB's assistant's hairdo blocking the lower left of the screen.
Also talk to a lighting designer (theater or architectural) for good ideas to light the tables & video subjects subtly.
Don't get a webcam. Get a real video camera and use a capture device. The sound and video produced will be way better than any webcam, and you won't really have to worry about drivers and such. They are very adaptable in varying light and motion conditions and cheap dv camera will be so much cheaper.
I've seen every brand fail but none so often as the WD 100 and 120 gb drives (90% failure 1yr. all cache sizes) for such a wide variety of reasons. I've never really liked WD over the years for many reasons but would buy them on occasion because of the specs/price and then re-promise myself to boycott them for another 5 years before trying again.
With the quantum bigfoots I had a similar failure percentage as you had.
With deathstars I should have bought lottery tickets when i picked them up. I've had 2/75 fail (60-120gb) total luck.
So here's my totally anecdotal list of drives/brands i'd rather not see again:
microSci
micropolis
syquest 135mb
syquest 88
Western Digital (all so far)
quantum bigfoot
Hardcards
maxtor 300 (5400)
zip 100 &jaz 1gb
most drives from maxtor before they bought quantum
whatever comes at the bottom price list of pricewatch.
http://www.nanocoolers.com.nyud.net:8090/products_ cooling.php
and
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/92ef8a0112fc3c695 4dc6da4f4c405b5/index.html
You could probably use someone with good path (trace) repair /rework skills. Good ones are like surgeons, and are rarely paid much, so an offer of say $60-$100 would probably get the job done to perfection (better than new). You'll find these people wherever circuitry is being mfgr'd/tested -find the plant and meet them outside during a smoke brake/ popular lunch break spot or something. SMT path repair & rework equipment is really expensive but it gets the job done right without all the esd damage and radioshaftiness that others are suggesting you gamble with.
If your data wasn't important and $600 is nothing to you, then i'd say buy some used smt soldering equipment from ebay, use some extra cards with smt chips and connectors to practice soldering on, have your test work checked by someone who knows what good circuit soldering is, buy the 16mb version of your drive and practice on it, then cross your fingers and try it for real.
sorry to correct myself- declassified should be NOT/UN- classified.
I don't want anyone showing up without a party hat on.
I thought the same on sdi as you until I ran across a few declassified items in the clinton era.
SDI still exists! Tech for it was still being developed & pitched at a time when it had no noticable public support/funding! I ran across quite a few real badass technologies, demos, and proposals. Everything I saw was done by the big aerospace/military companies. In the same breath I can't assume much has trickled out of these companies yet but i'm sure their funding is back in spades.
so from tfa it explains all the hardware is up there because it works. Very reasonable, and I love the simplistic approach in some situations.
I'm no space / gov't expert but here's my 3 million dollar proposal-
Upgrade Torture Sat (tm) (R)(C)(CC)(GPL)
Launch a sattelite with an orbit into the nasty zones of local space packed with modern equipment as a real world torture test.
I bet several chip mfgrs would step up just for the prestige.
You could run the software you wanted for a few years, you could set up special test equipment just to handle the more low level stuff.
Now the space industry is up to 25 years ahead.
IIRC, plenum cable does give off quite nasty toxic fumes when when subjected to flame but is more fire retardant and self extinguishing and I believe the gases are less flamable as well. This property is desired expecially in cable going through multiple floors where a cat5 'fuse' could circumvent all the other fire protection.
I've seen *many* smart and logical people get sucked into the work vortex never to fully return to school- usually with regrets. Myself included.
Many of them also took time off later in college with only a year or less to go. Same reasons- burnout, 'gain more focus', explore, etc.
Most people don't know what they really want to do and change their majors several times. It's really common and once you're in you'll connect with people studying some very interesting things that you probably haven't been exposed to yet.
Keep in mind the university isn't the real world. When you lean toward a field of study that leads directly to a career -investigate that career before going too far into the major! Don't trust the university to show you the real world version.
For instance, architecture/arch engineering. In the university it draws many to the program and encourages / demands artistic expression. you get to sculpt and engineer! great! Walk out with a diploma with the zeal to build futuristic cities. Join the best architectue firm you can. be a CAD slave for 20-45 years drafting someone elses crappy designs from their napkins and then maybe when you're grey you can take over and do your own design, but then realize 90% of the 'design' is mosly just a million warehouses with a cheap facade stapled on to it.
This happened to 3 of my friends who didn't check out the actual career first. The 4th one did an internship and talked with every architect he could early on. He kept studying architecture because he liked it, but changed majors. He also wasn't too thrilled with the 'culture' of architects. The other 3 are kinda bitter about the whole thing.
Go to school, travel next summer. It's really not that long from now. Get a part time job if you need to, in fact definatley get a part time job if you can swing it. It can help keep you grounded from some of the academia glaze.
best of luck!
IMHO Monster cables aren't worth it. I've also seen many forums echoing the same. They're gimmicky and luxury priced, and I've been annoyed before with the extra girth of some of their connectors. I have little doubt that they are over all high quality cables though and I've had them fail like any other cables too. I cackled when I saw monster cables for xbox for $50.
N N&subcat=VIDEOCAB&prodClass=&search=0&off=0
N N&subCat=VIDEOCAB
That being said, I'd go shop where broadcast people shop for such things, since their quality requirements are much more stringent than circuit city's offerings.
I found these guys a few years ago (their catalog is yummy):
http://www.markertek.com/CatList.asp?cat=CABLESCO
monster cable is mysteriously not on their list of cable manufacturers that they stock:
http://www.markertek.com/MfgList.asp?cat=CABLESCO
Neither is Belkin. I personally don't like most of belkin's products, and often have found that they're just cheap rebranded stuff, usually overpriced and caused me much pain and woe. Also I always suspected Belkin's name was selected to be confusable with a far superior cable maker, Belden (which also happens to be carried by markertek).
Best of Luck!
It helped a lot and might be an interim step for people who are not severely shakey. The mouse was way too jumpy for them though even at low sensitivity.
2 years ago-
i te_series.asp
Worst tech support experience I've consistantly had was with rimage and it lasted over 1 month!! All I was trying to do was replace a broken drive they had assured me was standard way back in the presale days. They had no replacements, wanted me to buy a new unit at $6k. My old software which was great in its earlier days had gone through some 'improvements' post veritas buyout and wasn't working anymore. Rimage had a new $$product that was supposed to replace all these features and more. I demoed it all and it was horridly inefficient- IIRC- 4 cd-r's took 3 hrs to make 4 cds, nevermind the crashes. The old unit with 4x drives was much faster. Then they too told me nobody actually uses this out of the box, they just buy the dev kit and customize it. Then they recommended I do the same for my team of developers. Sounds like a handy tech center stock answer. Guess what. I dont have a team of developers! I suggested they use their team of developers to make their own stuff work as advertised.
After much strife they finally provided me with someone at another company who could provide me with a copy of their customized firmware so i could replace my drives with identical ones. The robotics finally gave up the ghost a year later.
My replacement for it was from a less known company handled through discmakers. Discjuggler runs it with a special autoloader product called imagejuggler which works very nicely (you can also use DJ.NET and they have a web interface too. They could improve a few things but all in all robotics are top notch and simple, no weird firmware, replacable (upgradable!) drives (as long as your burning app supports it, which dj handles many) and I can easily burn different images simultaneously. Furthermore both discmakers and DJ support was great.
http://www.discmakers.com/duplicators/products/el
and yup its only for windows. but at least you get browser ui.
IINACryptoExpert-
So there is enough buzz to stop using MD5 in several situations at least.
It's a shame because there are so many great tools that many people have made that are now a few shades away from dust but that's how the security game goes.
I run into situations where I've used MD5 to uniquely ID/fingerprint/tamperproof document images used in legal cases, so although the chances seem very slim that the md5 problems would be exploited in this instance- it's no longer something i can ever use again.
So what can now fill MD5's shoes?
What's also likely to be the most popular replacement?
Thanks!
Something I rarely see explored in the blogs VS 'regular media' debate is the role that the shelf life and interactivity of stories both play.
The usual media outlets are fire and forget stream without any chance critique and within the next 4-24 hours will be another barage.
News on blogs can last a very long time, propogate, be critiqued, and draw lots of fans, foes, and wholy other points of view. The story might be complete bunk but looking at it as a whole, valuable things can be found.
I haven't really seen the issue of the longevity of stories brought up in the whole debate but I think it's near the heart of the argument.
Do I think bloggers are journalists? You bet- and their quality varies just like the others.
In the middle of the debate there seems to be lots of allegations from mainstream media talking about journalistic integrity, bloggers not having the resources to truly produce news,lack of 'real editors' and rewriting stories without much disgression. I'd love to see mainstream news without access to things like the AP, lexis/nexis, or other news services for a month.
I'd also love to see the news show joe public how they do make the news and what truly differenciates their news from a bloggers. All I've really seen lately is a lot of fire and forget allegations.
Boeing, Learjet, Cesna/Raytheon, YingLing, and many smaller aircraft manufacturers are not far away in Wichita and I expect there was a lot of excitement.
p ?id=93
A total guess on my part is the common weather pattern east of the rockies might have something to do with it.
a bit of flight history in KS:
http://www.wingsoverkansas.com/history/article.as
valence band? http://britneyspears.ac/physics/basics/basics.htm Yet the LHC girls are much cuter.